[PATCH v3][BZ 21340] add support for POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID

Daurnimator quae@daurnimator.com
Fri Apr 7 12:27:00 GMT 2017


On 6 April 2017 at 23:24, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/06/2017 03:22 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>
>>> It would obviously be better to have a copyright assignment, but this
>>> particular patch may be uncopyrightable on the grounds that there is
>>> no other way to implement the specification.  I think if I had been
>>> given the assignment I would have written token-for-token identical
>>> code.
>>
>> This argument does not apply to the test case.
>
> Oh, good point, I didn't notice that there was a test case in the revised patch.
>
> zw

FWIW I'd find it easier to resubmit the patch without the test case
than to fill out the copyright assignment...



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