From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] makedev(3): point people at sys/sysmacros.h Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:38:43 +0200 Message-ID: <57177853.8020006@gmail.com> References: <20160418164908.GR5369@vapier.lan> <1461045163-21248-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <5717687D.2060300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Zack Weinberg Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Mike Frysinger , linux-mtd-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, GNU C Library , linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 04/20/2016 01:47 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: >> On 04/19/2016 06:52 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> Defining these functions via sys/types.h violates POSIX namespace >>> requirements, >> >> What do the previous lines mean? Violate namespace requirements how? > > I think it's technically not true that they violate POSIX namespace > requirements, since they're only defined in the non-conforming modes. > > The reason I originally proposed the change is that libstdc++ > force-enables _GNU_SOURCE, which means people writing in C++ _can't_ > avoid these nonstandard macros by using a strict conformance mode. Thanks for the explanation, Zack. I applied Mike's patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html