[PATCH] Use __BSD_VISIBLE for RTEMS <sys/_termios.h>

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
Wed May 24 05:42:00 GMT 2017



On 23/05/17 17:16, Craig Howland wrote:
> On 05/23/2017 04:23 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> The Termios header <sys/_termios.h> used _POSIX_SOURCE directly to
>> determine if a thing should be exposed to the user.  This circumvented
>> the feature mechanisms of <sys/cdefs.h>.
> Would you please explain why !_POSIX_SOURCE being replaced with 
> __BSD_VISIBLE rather than, for example, !__POSIX_VISIBLE?

A negation of visibility define makes no sense.

> That is, you seem to not only be updating to sys/features.h macro 
> names, but also shifting exactly how the gate is done.  (I'm not 
> saying it is necessarily incorrect, just that the explanation does not 
> mention the logic change.  The two are not logical opposites, so an 
> implication is that the original gate of POSIX is not really the right 
> one.) 

This is an import from FreeBSD. To me this looks like FreeBSD forgot to 
update the Termios headers to use the visibility defines.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2017-May/051069.html

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