On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Guy Martin <gmsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:34:12 -0400 >> "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Is this because hppa doesn't use the same values as x86 and the only >>> way to get your own values is to modify your own copies of said files? >> >> As far as I can see, yes. Alpha is doing exactly the same thing. >> >> Maybe a better fix would be to have glibc derive the value of all the >> _CLOEXEC and _NONBLOCK from O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK instead of each >> having its own copy. This is how they are defined in the kernel anyway. > > Yes, it would be a better fix. However, I understand that this would > be more work and you may not have much time as a volunteer. Are you > interested in fixing this problem in a more general way? I would be > willing to help champion such a patch on libc-alpha. > > It's getting a bit out of hand that each machine has to carry complete > copies of all of these headers. > > Cheers, > Carlos. I think we'd be interested in doing something like this for alpha as well. Matt -- 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
