On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:32:29PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:19:06 -0800, > Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:44:10PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > The attached patch updates sched_[gs]etaffinity to the new interface > > > from glibc 2.3.4.
> I have difficulties with this patch. This patch adds new interface > glibc 2.3.4 versioning symbol - it should not be in glibc 2.3.2 or > 2.3.3. > > Investigation in the lintian lab on gluck.d.o shows that there are at least > > two packages, valgrind and schedutils, which would need to be updated to use > > the new API once this change is uploaded. Unfortunately, the data in that > > lintian lab is 9 months out-of-date, so a more thorough check is needed > > before this change can be allowed into sarge. > I fear to change this interface until sarge release because there > might be another packages that uses sched_setaffinity. I've confirmed that the lintian lab was up-to-date, in spite of some confusion about the timestamps on the directories. This means valgrind and schedutils are the only packages in Debian using this function currently, which means it's possible to update all of them at once. > I tender not to include the patch. I would like to call your opinion > about Bastian's patch. Well, there have been persuasive arguments why this patch is a good idea to include; persuasive enough that I left the bug at an RC severity. So my opinion is that it ought to be included... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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