Re: glibc 2.30 - 6 days until ABI freeze.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 6/28/19 8:10 AM, Mike Crowe wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2019 at 07:58:21 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 6/28/19 7:22 AM, Mike Crowe wrote:
>>> On Monday 24 June 2019 at 21:45:48 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> We have 6 days until the ABI freeze for glibc 2.30.
>>>
>>> Adhemerval Zanella and I would quite like to get the new pthread _clock
>>> versions of existing _timed functions in. The changes are currently sat on
>>> the azanella/master-posix_clock branch.
>>
>> How close are we to done that review?
> 
> I think that the patches themselves are in very good shape (thanks to
> Adhemerval fixing up all my bad formatting.)
> 
> The delay is due to some last-minute worries[1] that the functions might
> need to have _np suffixes on them until they're actually formally part of
> POSIX. I think that the chance of the function names or parameters changing
> at this stage is low, but I'm not an expert in the standardisation process.

If you use _np suffixes you won't have to worry about this at all, and then
we can alias the the new functions when updated.
 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-06/msg00765.html
> 


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Cheers,
Carlos.