On 10/14/21 16:53, Ben Pfaff wrote:
The chair of the group
appears to be Andrew Josey, but he hides his email
Sorry, I should have told you it's Andrew Josey .
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:09 PM Paul Eggert wrote:
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> On 10/14/21 16:03, Ben Pfaff wrote:
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> > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
> >
> > This specification has a lot of cases that explicitly apply only to the
> > last close of an object, either using that language or by saying th
On 10/14/21 16:03, Ben Pfaff wrote:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
This specification has a lot of cases that explicitly apply only to the
last close of an object, either using that language or by saying that
something happens when "all file descriptors associated with" an
ob
I guess this isn't the best place to ask this question, but I think there
are knowledgeable people here. I don't know the right place, so I'd
welcome being redirected to a better one.
The POSIX spec for close() is here:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
This specification has a lo
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:38 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
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> On 10/14/21 3:47 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > Maybe a memory-mapped I/O in GNU-diff
> > could improve the speed?
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> I tried this lng ago (circa 1990) with either GNU grep or GNU diff
> (can't remember which) and it made performance worse.
On 10/14/21 3:47 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
Maybe a memory-mapped I/O in GNU-diff
could improve the speed?
I tried this lng ago (circa 1990) with either GNU grep or GNU diff
(can't remember which) and it made performance worse. Of course it's
platform-dependent.
On 10/14/21 7:02 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
All we do is
use our pre-built templates for config.{guess,site,sub} and pass the
--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd$(version) argument to configure scripts
if they are generated by GNU autotools.
Surely this doesn't work if there's a configure.ac or m4/
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:47:34AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/12/21 9:02 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
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> >Ports framework does several things which affect GNU configure
> >scripts, particularly, it replaces build-aux/config.guess file
> >with our own, where host/build tuples are derived fro
Bruno Haible wrote:
I added this __try/__catch uses because
- POSIX wants an error return rather than a program crash for
calls like close(-1).
- We make extensive use of such calls in the test suite.
If you find, by extensive testing, that SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING works
for your progra
