[PATCH] New configuration option for lite exit

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Tue May 28 10:28:00 GMT 2013


On May 28 18:12, Ye Joey wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > why can't you use _exit() or _Exit()?
> >
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exit.html
> Sebastian, Corinna,
> 
> This patch makes calls to expensive clean up functions as weak
> reference, so one can still keep original functionality by explicitly
> pull-in symbols. Comparing to simply skipping them to _exit or _Exit,
> this approach is more flexible and testing friendly. In another word,
> user can still get a full functional libc even if it is built with
> --enable-lite-exit.
> 
> Please let me know if you still have concerns.

I don't know.  I guess I defer the decision to Jeff.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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