On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:20:32 -0400 Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 It seems that sparc is doing the same as well. I'll produce a patch for glibc and glibc-ports that cleans this up. Cheers, Guy -- 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
