[MTASCsft PATCH 10/??] MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs: manual/filesys.texi

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Jan 31 09:08:00 GMT 2014


On 01/30/2014 03:50 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Patch OK to commit as long as /bsd doesn't render to anything.
>  
> Uhh, serious?  :-(  Later files (signal.texi comes to mind) have plenty
> of these, and because on different systems different functions are
> implemented in terms of different primitives, we get to different
> conclusions depending on whether we take note of kernel-specific safety
> issues.
> 
> So, if we really want to drop the conditionals, should I do that by
> simply removing them, or by introducing a wrapper macro (say @sftcond{})
> that discards its argument?

No, we can leave them in, but then we have to document them in the intro.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 



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