Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757513Ab3CDEEG (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:04:06 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:60704 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756420Ab3CDEEC (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:04:02 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Rob Landley Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man , Linux Containers , lkml References: <1362110504.15531.4@driftwood> <1362369010.29250.3@driftwood> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:03:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1362369010.29250.3@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:50:10 -0600") Message-ID: <876217olp0.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18jyPZocIBkTIdy3Zjmi66nyPdbhKM24hI= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 1.5 TR_Symld_Words too many words that have symbols inside * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Rob Landley X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:26:46 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 29 Rob Landley writes: > On 03/01/2013 03:57:40 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> > And yet the glibc guys insist on #define >> GNU_GNU_GNU_ALL_HAIL_STALLMAN in >> > order to access this Linux-specific feature which has nothing >> whatsoever to >> > do with the FSF. >> >> This is a misunderstanding. _GNU_SOURCE is the standard way to expose >> Linux-specific functionality from POSIX header files. > > What standard? The Linux kernel is not, and never was, part of the GNU > project. Is the argument that there should be a _LINUX_SOURCE directive in glibc for this? Although come to think of it I can't imagine how is a POSIX header. Last I looked it only had linux specific bits in it. Which makes needing any kind of #define strange. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/