AT_* flags

[David Bartley]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
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> David Bartley wrote:
>> I noticed that the AT_* flags (e.g. AT_FDCWD) are defined in
>> io/fcntl.h. Shouldn't they be defined in the platform-dependent
>> bits/fcntl.h? Solaris (and probably other platforms) define different
>> values for these flags.
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> And why should this matter?  The only other supported kernel is Hurd and
> they can and should use the same value.

Glibc has been ported to some of the *bsd systems and might eventually
be ported to other platforms. Wouldn't it generally be a good idea to
make glibc as portable/platform-independent as is reasonable?

-- David

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