On 19 Apr 2016 04:02, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 4/19/16 1:41 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i waited until the known bugs died down. i don't have access to a > > tinderbox system myself. > > you didn't notice that coreutils and systemd/udev/eudev broke?
i had pushed the coreutils issue upstream, but i thought it was fixed already (via configure checks). i don't run those other packages. > but a heads up would have been useful certainly. i usually do it based on how much on an impat a change will have. i didn't think this would spawn as many bugs as it had (since the incoming rate had slowed/stopped), but i misjudged. > > not today, but as i said, we want to move multiple libraries (at least > > glibc, uClibc, musl, and bionic) in that direction. the current behavior > > violates the POSIX standard. > > i took a look at opengroup.org and it seems posix is silent on the > matter. POSIX does not permit sys/types.h inclusion to export things it doesn't define. since it doesn't define major/minor/makedev, including them in the export is a standards violation. -mike
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