On 04/20/2016 01:47 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 04/19/2016 06:52 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> Defining these functions via sys/types.h violates POSIX namespace >>> requirements, >> >> What do the previous lines mean? Violate namespace requirements how? > > I think it's technically not true that they violate POSIX namespace > requirements, since they're only defined in the non-conforming modes. > > The reason I originally proposed the change is that libstdc++ > force-enables _GNU_SOURCE, which means people writing in C++ _can't_ > avoid these nonstandard macros by using a strict conformance mode. Thanks for the explanation, Zack. I applied Mike's patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
