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Re: [PATCH] HPPA : Define all the hppa specific _CLOEXEC and _NONBLOCK values
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be> wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:34:12 -0400
>> "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this because hppa doesn't use the same values as x86 and the only
>>> way to get your own values is to modify your own copies of said files?
>>
>> As far as I can see, yes. Alpha is doing exactly the same thing.
>>
>> Maybe a better fix would be to have glibc derive the value of all the
>> _CLOEXEC and _NONBLOCK from O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK instead of each
>> having its own copy. This is how they are defined in the kernel anyway.
>
> Yes, it would be a better fix. However, I understand that this would
> be more work and you may not have much time as a volunteer. Are you
> interested in fixing this problem in a more general way? I would be
> willing to help champion such a patch on libc-alpha.
>
> It's getting a bit out of hand that each machine has to carry complete
> copies of all of these headers.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
I think we'd be interested in doing something like this for alpha as well.
Matt