Re: glibc 2.30 - 6 days until ABI freeze.

[Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe dot com>]

On Thursday 04 July 2019 at 10:39:05 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/06/2019 09:55, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Hi Carlos, should I assume your take on this is for 2.30 we add the _np suffixes?
> 
> Mike, if this were the case, could you change the names based on my personal
> branch?

I can do that, but given the previous support for the unadorned names I was
hoping for more responses from others in favour.

Thanks.

Mike.