"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Alternatively Ramsay's _XOPEN_SOURCE patch is part of "next", so >> if it fixes the problem for you that would confirm the patch is >> a good one to have. > > BTW, would it make sense fr this patch to be cherry-picked into 1.4.8? > I guess the reason that LNK macros are under GNU_SOURCE is the following > text from stat(2): > > The S_ISLNK and S_ISSOCK macros > are not in POSIX.1-1996, but both will be in the next POSIX standard; > the former is from SVID 4v2, the latter from SUSv2. I originally scheduled it for immediately after 1.4.2 but I would say why not. It makes sense and does not seem to break for people (otherwise I would have heard screams, hopefully). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html