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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:03:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <876217olp0.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362369010.29250.3@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:50:10 -0600")

Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:

> On 03/01/2013 03:57:40 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> > And yet the glibc guys insist on #define  
>> GNU_GNU_GNU_ALL_HAIL_STALLMAN in
>> > order to access this Linux-specific feature which has nothing  
>> whatsoever to
>> > do with the FSF.
>> 
>> This is a misunderstanding. _GNU_SOURCE is the standard way to expose
>> Linux-specific functionality from POSIX header files.
>
> What standard? The Linux kernel is not, and never was, part of the GNU  
> project.

Is the argument that there should be a _LINUX_SOURCE directive in glibc
for this?

Although come to think of it I can't imagine how <sched.h> is a POSIX
header.  Last I looked it only had linux specific bits in it.  Which
makes needing any kind of #define strange.

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-28 11:24 For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-02-28 14:24 ` Vasily Kulikov
2013-03-01  8:03   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-01  8:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-01  8:53       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-02-28 15:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-01  8:50   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-01  9:10     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-01 10:20       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-01  4:01 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-01  6:58   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-01  9:57   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-01 15:35     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-04 12:46       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-04 17:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]           ` <CAKgNAkjYmvjMzC+nYqsjHf4bQn2ZwdE5wawoP2p32ZSo+0dfcQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-05  6:23             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-05  6:41             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-05  8:37               ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-06  0:40                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-07  8:20                   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-07  8:31                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-06  1:58           ` Rob Landley
2013-03-06  2:23             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-04  3:50     ` Rob Landley
2013-03-04  4:03       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-03-04 12:48         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-04 19:27         ` Rob Landley
2013-03-05  7:01           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-04 12:50       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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2014-08-20 23:38 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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