On 12/4/20 4:12 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Carlos O'Donell: > >> On 6/10/20 2:00 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Hi Carlos, >>> >>> What's the status of this patch? >> >> I'm currently rewriting the language of the section to split apart the >> AT_PLATFORM and AT_HWCAP parts. >> >> They each behave differently. AT_PLATFORM is a non-nested singular platform >> directory that is searched with no fallback, and that needs to clarified >> and called out. While AT_HWCAP is drastically different in behaviour. >> >> When done we'll have two lists, and two explanations for the search paths >> and their orders. >> >> I'm doing this as part of the upstream review of this infrasturcture >> because we're going to change the behaviour in an upcoming release. With >> the changes in place we'll have a good place to say "... and now it's different." >> >> In summary: Still working on it. Expect v3. > > Carlos, what's the status here? I need to write an update for > glibc-hwcaps, and this likely conflicts with your edits (at least > semantically). I won't be able to touch this until the new year. I want to handle the higher priority glibc patches for review. Please feel free to rewrite, change, and do whatever you want. -- Cheers, Carlos.
