On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Florian Weimer wrote: > People may have disappeared from glibc development who have objected to > gettid. I thought this was the case with strlcpy/strlcat, but it was > not. Well, I know of two main people who were objecting to the notion of adding bindings for all non-obsolescent syscalls, Linux-specific if not suitable for adding to the OS-independent GNU API, and neither seems to have posted in the past year. > At present, it takes one semi-active glibc contributor to block addition > of a system call. The process to override a sustained objection has > never been used successfully, and it is a lot of work to get it even > started. We don't have such a process. (I've suggested, e.g. in conversation with Carlos at the Cauldron, that we should have something involving a supermajority vote of the GNU maintainers for glibc in cases where we're unable to reach a consensus in the community as a whole.) -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
