On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:12:07AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > If I generate a list of debian packages that look at EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN, > couldn't we just regenerate those packages once the kernel change is in > place and the kernel header files pushed to debian experimental? > There can't be that many packages. > Sure, but what about people running the old stable version of Debian or something? We lose the ability to have (probably) useful userspace running when kernels get bisected across the flag version. > And of those that do, I believe most time the old binaries will generally > work since EWOULDBLOCK code paths are unlikely to get exercised. Or is > there evidence to the contrary? > That's what we need to find out. :) Because it will "just work" on most other operating systems I've been able to quickly grep for, people might have been negligent. I think Helge should definitely submit his very fine patches to glibc/kernel wherever. As John points out, I looked up POSIX tonight and as it stands they don't violate it technically (since the value is the same) but they symbollically do. :) regards, Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
