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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make ldd more portable and robust
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "P. J. McDermott" <pjm at nac dot net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:12:14 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make ldd more portable and robust
- References: <50AEEFF0 dot 5040501 at nac dot net> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1301180237210 dot 25419 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk>
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, P. J. McDermott wrote:
>
> > (I don't have a copyright assignment agreement on file for glibc. I
> > doubt these changes would be considered legally significant, but I can
> > send in papers if necessary.)
>
> The try_trace change may not need an assignment, but by the time we
> include the full patches for bug 13853 (avoiding $"") I think the changes
> are big enough to need one. Now 2.17 is out, the release freeze is over
> and we're in active development for 2.18, it would be good to do the
> assignment and then repost versions of these patches for current sources
> (addressing any issues from the last patch reviews).
It seems this patch discussion tailed off ... I'd still like to see these
changes from last November (avoiding $"", and ldd portability) get into
glibc, though now it would need to be for 2.19, but I think they are now
big enough to need an assignment.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/Copyright/request-assign.future;hb=HEAD
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Joseph S. Myers
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