> On 14 Aug 2016, at 00:33, Joerg Jung <m...@umaxx.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:40:12PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>> "Ali H. Fardan" <r...@firemail.cc> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2016-08-12 23:03, j...@wxcvbn.org wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Probably, but not as is.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> of course
>>> 
>>>> This checks has no value for the ports tree, and it would do more harm
>>>> than good, should upstream accept the patch as is.  What if pledge(2)
>>>> becomes available on another OS?
>>> 
>>> if pledge became available on another OS, it would be their job to use
>>> this patch,
>> 
>> From a general POV, if the point of the patch we include in the ports
>> tree is to be pushed upstream, I don't see why the use of pledge(2)
>> wouldn't be as automatic as possible if available, just like for any
>> other function.
>> 
>>> also I wrote the #ifdef because I intended to submit this
>>> patch to the mainstream sic, but I changed my mind and I thought that
>>> this is the correct place to do it, so it is not necessary to include
>>> it.
>> 
>> Joerg knows better than us whether the use of pledge should be pushed
>> upstream. :)
> 
> I submitted a diff to upstream, let's see how it goes.

Finally, upstream committed a variation yesterday.

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