[PATCH] libc-compat.h for <bits/fcntl-linux.h>

Eric Neblock ceneblock@member.fsf.org
Mon May 9 13:02:00 GMT 2016


On 05/09/2016 07:53 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Eric Neblock <ceneblock@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> On 05/09/2016 07:47 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>> Rather than this approach, why not have the glibc header include the
>>> uapi header and rely on its definitions?  This might need to be
>>> conditional on a sufficiently new version of the uapi header being
>>> available, but it is more future-proof.
>>
>> My only concern with that would be if someone is compiling for BSD,
>> Solaris, Cygwin, or some other *nix.
> 
> In that case, sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/fcntl-linux.h will not be
> used at all.
> 
> zw
> 
Just for my own sanity, I rechecked the INSTALL file of glibc and Linux
headers are required.

I'll update the patch shortly.

Eric



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