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[Bug libc/13959] Request to deprecate namespace-polluting cruft in headers with _GNU_SOURCE
- From: "joseph at codesourcery dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:29:21 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/13959] Request to deprecate namespace-polluting cruft in headers with _GNU_SOURCE
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- References: <bug-13959-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13959
--- Comment #1 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2012-04-07 15:29:21 UTC ---
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, bugdal at aerifal dot cx wrote:
> - lots more...
> Note that this bug report/enhancement request is really a matter of glibc's
> documentation and future direction policy rather than a request for any
> immediate source-level changes.
If you want specific changes, "lots more" isn't helpful information about
those changes.
If you want to discuss policy regarding legacy APIs, libc-alpha would be a
better place than Bugzilla to discuss the general question of
reconsidering whether interfaces from BSD and SVID, that are not in POSIX,
belong in the _GNU_SOURCE API or not. If there's support for
reconsidering some such interfaces, then individual bugs could be filed in
Bugzilla for each case that someone thinks should be removed from the
_GNU_SOURCE API (the developers may end up disagreeing with some of those
cases; separate bugs for each case are best to avoid entangling
consideration of one API with that of other APIs).
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