On 11/12/18 11:43 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: > 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.) ... and I need a good excuse to propose such a process :-) -- Cheers, Carlos.
