Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-04T04:04:06Z

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