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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:53:11PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:20:10PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > > > With such a change an the fact, that the old, wrong behaviour is > > > descriped in nearly every Linux documentation which contains a > > > description for nice, Yes, we should give it a new version. > > > > What do we have to do with Linux documentation? We are glibc and > > according to the glibc documentation nice() should return the > > priority. Manual pages aren't official glibc documentation. If I write > > some documentation saying that nice() should return 72925, do we have > > to make another version for that? > > No, we should only remember that nearly all programs using nice() for > Linux are "broken" and that we should not break all this applications > with such a change. I think this is such a dramatic change which will > break many applictions, that we should introduce a new version to give > the people the chance to use their old binaries until all software is > fixed. glibc isn't made to workaround all programmer's bugs. We never change interfaces for bugfixes, if we are going to do that glibc will get pretty bloated. I don't see why we should change the behaviour because the amount of applications relying on a bug is higher this time. The applications need to get fixed anyhow, just fix it now and recompile it. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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