Back on March 15/2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>I have finally produced another version of the big header file patch
>for people to look at. I'm still running an older (January) kernel
>and world based on these changes. I have verified that these still
>build on i386-architecture systems. I'm looking for some people to
>do the following:
>
>1) Look at the changes to machine-dependent i386 headers and make
> analogous changes, or verify the changes I've made, in the Alpha
> and IA64 code.
>
>2) Test it. I'm interested not only in whether it runs -- I'm fairly
> confident of that -- but also in what external software it breaks,
> if any.
>
>I'm expecting to make a third pass over the header files once Austin
>Group draft 6 is issued. (Draft 7 is expected to be the final text.)
>However, I really, really want to get this checked in so that we can
>all have a framework on which to work.
>
>The patch has now gotten too large for some e-mail systems, so I'm
>making it available via the Web at
> <http://khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu/includes.patch>.
As I'm sitting here picking off the occasional compile-time warnings
in lpr&friends, I'm wondering about the status & timeline of this big
posix-push patch. (one of the warnings I'm getting would be solved
by the changes to <grp.h> in this patch).
Is the goal to have this patch in current for "5.0-release" later this
year? If so, what milestones should we be shooting for? Is this going
to show up in 4-stable too, or is it too widespread a change to try
and MFC it? (I am not suggesting it SHOULD be MFC'ed, I'm just
wondering).
[also, it seems to me there was a more recent message about this
patch, but it seems I didn't save that one]
I've got this idea of trying to build an alternate /usr/include on
my -current machine, and then see how it works by switching between
the current /usr/include and an alternate version which included
the latest version of this patch. On the other hand, I do a lot
more day-to-day living on a -stable system, so I'm not sure how
much of a test I'd give these changes on my -current system.
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