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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.23 and willfully breaking stuff
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:53:59
Message-Id: 20160419225322.GR5369@vapier.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.23 and willfully breaking stuff by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 19 Apr 2016 04:02, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 4/19/16 1:41 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > i waited until the known bugs died down. i don't have access to a
4 > > tinderbox system myself.
5 >
6 > you didn't notice that coreutils and systemd/udev/eudev broke?
7
8 i had pushed the coreutils issue upstream, but i thought it was fixed
9 already (via configure checks). i don't run those other packages.
10
11 > but a heads up would have been useful
12
13 certainly. i usually do it based on how much on an impat a change
14 will have. i didn't think this would spawn as many bugs as it had
15 (since the incoming rate had slowed/stopped), but i misjudged.
16
17 > > not today, but as i said, we want to move multiple libraries (at least
18 > > glibc, uClibc, musl, and bionic) in that direction. the current behavior
19 > > violates the POSIX standard.
20 >
21 > i took a look at opengroup.org and it seems posix is silent on the
22 > matter.
23
24 POSIX does not permit sys/types.h inclusion to export things it doesn't
25 define. since it doesn't define major/minor/makedev, including them in
26 the export is a standards violation.
27 -mike

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