the remaining chunk of the RTEMS patch

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Tue Dec 12 06:34:00 GMT 2000


On Tuesday 12 December 2000 14:02, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > AFAICT, it removes things like '_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF' and
> > '_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN'.  It also seems to renumber other SC_
> > constants from their previous usage, which breaks backwards
> > compatibility.
>
> Where were these?  I thought I did not remove any. :(

As usual: libc/include/sys/unistd.h

> Also AFAIK aren't these beyond POSIX?

So they have to be removed?

> As I have stated other times, RTEMS does not particularly care about
> the numeric values.  Feel free to change them to whatever Cygwin
> wants.

I'm somewhat annoyed by this statement. Why didn't you care
for the values when creating the patch? I'm not quite convinced
that other people have to repair the damage but you.

> Please feel free to change the value of constants.  RTEMS does not
> depend
> on these in any fashion. :)

Then, why did you change the existing values?

Corinna

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