On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Well yes. waitid() has been in there since 2.6.9. I assume that it >> has had this wait4-emulation mode for that amount of time as well? > > Correct. > >> Well, we might get away with it. But formally speaking, we should live >> with our Linux-specific screwup. > > I agree with both of you and I don't care which we do. I don't feel strongly about this, but lean towards the idea that we should fix things, as per Roland's patch, and I suspect we can get away with it, for the reasons I mentioned already. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
