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Re: Misc patches for glibc
- To: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Misc patches for glibc
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 20:54:50 -0500
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:40:11 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
>I think we should undo the timespec change. I now believe it is
>a VSX-PCT bug. Also we should only use union in struct sigaction
>when __USE_POSIX199309 is defined. Also, I am not sure if we
>should expose "pselect" when __USE_POSIX is defined. I changed
>it to __USE_MISC. Maybe we should add __USE_POSIX1g.
I have to wonder if we should be mucking with something as fragile as
feature select macros while in codefreeze and based on a buggy
testsuite. It's not like this stuff is _used_ by very many people.
It'd be nice to claim perfect conformance to standards X, Y, Z,
... but we *already* do better than any commercial Unix, and 2.1 final
is practically here.
For 2.2 I have some ideas how to clean up the whole feature selection
mess, but right now maybe we should let it alone.
zw