From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269257AbUJFMyx (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:54:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269255AbUJFMyx (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:54:53 -0400 Received: from ts2-075.twistspace.com ([217.71.122.75]:13210 "EHLO entmoot.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269010AbUJFMyw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:54:52 -0400 Message-ID: <010e01c4abab$e90da780$161b14ac@boromir> From: "Martijn Sipkema" To: "Ulrich Drepper" , "Christoph Lameter" Cc: "George Anzinger" , , , , , , References: <4154F349.1090408@redhat.com> <41550B77.1070604@redhat.com> <4159B920.3040802@redhat.com> <415AF4C3.1040808@mvista.com> <415E3D5A.2010501@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Posix compliant cpu clocks V6 [2/3]: Glibc patch Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:53:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Ulrich Drepper" > Christoph Lameter wrote: >> The following patch makes glibc not provide the above clocks and use the >> kernel clocks instead if either of the following condition is met: > > Did you ever hear about a concept called binary compatiblity? Don't > bother working on any glibc patch. The functionality should arguably not have been added to glibc in the first place since its implementation was incorrect. --ms