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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Avoid duplication of _CLOEXEC and _NONBLOCK values


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>> If you want to avoid costs then start at the root. ?Get those ignorant
>> kernel arch maintainers to use the same values as the mainstream
>> architectures.
>
> I agree with you completely, but in the meantime it would be
> beneficial to reduce the glibc maintenance cost *now* while we
> continue to educate kernel arch maintainers.

Wouldn't this break the ABI? Suddenly changing a bunch of compile-time defines?

The kernel-defines.h idea seems like a good one. I'd like to do this
for alpha. I'm sure it'd save me/us time in the future.

Matt


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