[PATCH] Fix up LD_* vars behaviour

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Fri Apr 27 04:33:00 GMT 2012


On Thursday 19 April 2012 12:18:36 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> My view of when glibc's own documentation (not that in a separate project)
> should be updated by a patch is: it is desirable for all public interfaces
> in glibc to be documented in the glibc manual.  This should be considered
> required for all new functions that do not come from a standard such as
> ISO C or POSIX, and are not just direct wrappers round system calls,
> unless they form part of a group with existing functions none of which are
> documented.  Even in those cases (functions from external standards,
> direct wrappers round system calls, and functions from existing
> undocumented groups of functions), documentation is still desirable (but I
> don't want to require it to be added in order to add the function).

+1
-mike
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