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Re: [PATCH] Make getsockopt() a weak symbol

From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27 at gmail dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:15:12 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make getsockopt() a weak symbol
References: <4C44C2BB.3020501@gmail.com> <20100719233648.0FAD140840@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 20/07/10 01:36, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The reason is that there was, and is, no __getsockopt call from elsewhere
> in libc.  Calls to getsockopt are kosher in parts of libc that are never
> called by ISO C libc functions.  POSIX code cannot use the name getsockopt
> for its own purposes anyway.
> 
> What problem do you think you are solving here?

Ah, I should have checked if there were calls to getsockopt from libc. I thought
that there could be and that they would break if a program redefined getsockopt,
but that's obviously not the case if libc doesn't call it.

Sorry for the noise.
Emilio

References:
- [PATCH] Make getsockopt() a weak symbol
  - From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
- Re: [PATCH] Make getsockopt() a weak symbol
  - From: Roland McGrath

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