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Re: popen bug, extension
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:44:25 -0600
- Subject: Re: popen bug, extension
- References: <4A8ACB99.7050508@byu.net> <4A8AD42C.8030200@redhat.com>
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According to Jeff Johnston on 8/18/2009 10:17 AM:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Go ahead and commit. Just fix the typo "wries" in your documentation.
>
> 2009-08-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
>
> Improve popen compatibility with glibc.
> * libc/posix/popen.c (popen): The 2006-08-22 change to use
> FD_CLOEXEC disagrees with other implementations; instead, use
> pidlist to work even when fcntl is not available. Meanwhile,
> support the 'e' modifier to set CLOEXEC, as in glibc. Drop
> cygwin-specific code, now that cygwin has its own version.
> * libc/posix/Makefile.am (CHEWOUT_FILES): Document popen.
> * libc/posix/posix.tex: New file.
Done with the corrected docs. However, I did not regenerate Makefile.in,
as I don't have my environment set up for that at the moment.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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