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From: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
To: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] another BSD/OSX related patch-set
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:43:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603140243.40546.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160308012836.GA26455@newbook>

On Tuesday 08 March 2016, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:11:50AM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > From: Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@ga-group.nl>
> >
> > This is github pull request #299
> > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/299
> >
> > Again some arbitrary BSD, OSX and musl related fixes and clean-up
>
> <snip>
>
> > For OSX one should additionally disable all utmp.h related
> > programs.
>
> FYI:
> With musl, utmpx is stubbed out and utmp is wrappers for utmpx, so
> users should disable utmp(x)-related programs and code.

> (The point is to let things build, but not use utmp because the
> maintainer considers it a fundamentally flawed idea.)
>
> Additionally, systemd is working on allowing disabling of utmp(x).

Will there be another interface to be used by last(1)?

> This seems to imply that --disable-utmp/--disable-utmpx options would
> be helpful.

Do you mean --without-utmp to build our progs without utmp or really 
disabling the build of all progs which are using utmp right now?

Actually I thought the next step could be to remove utmp and use utmpx 
only because it's POSIX and more portable. See commit d00c10ed. 

> > Almost no interesting compiler warnings left. Xcode/clang warnings
> > are a bit over the top anyways.
> >
> >
> > Ruediger Meier (12):
> >   wipefs, sfdisk: include libgen.h for basename(3p)
>
> I'm glad to see use of POSIX basename(), which is the only version
> that musl implements.

There are still two files to be fixed
  login-utils/last.c
  login-utils/su-common.c

On the other hand I thought we could also completely avoid basename(3p) 
and use something like our stripoff_last_component() from 
lib/fileutils.c.

> The way musl implements basename, strdup() is not needed, but
> following POSIX is better than relying on implementation-specific
> details.
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Dunham
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-07 23:11 [PATCH 00/12] another BSD/OSX related patch-set Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 01/12] wipefs, sfdisk: include libgen.h for basename(3p) Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 02/12] misc: again fixing many printf format strings Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 03/12] lib: include sys/stat.h for struct stat Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 04/12] fdisk: sun, undef HAVE_QSORT_R for non-Linux Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 05/12] libfdisk: remove ifdef HDIO_GETGEO Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 06/12] misc: never cast void* from malloc(3) and friends Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 07/12] libmount: don't include libio.h Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 08/12] tests: cramfs, fix root group Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:11 ` [PATCH 09/12] tests: don't skip case "output undefined" Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:12 ` [PATCH 10/12] tests: getopt2, add function gnu_getopt_clean() Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:12 ` [PATCH 11/12] tests: improve getopt loop error case Ruediger Meier
2016-03-07 23:12 ` [PATCH 12/12] getopt: fix -n name for BSD Ruediger Meier
2016-03-08  1:28 ` [PATCH 00/12] another BSD/OSX related patch-set Isaac Dunham
2016-03-14  1:43   ` Ruediger Meier [this message]
2016-03-14 15:10     ` Karel Zak
2016-03-15  2:10     ` Isaac Dunham
2016-03-15 11:24     ` Karel Zak

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