linux-kernel - Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

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Message-ID: <876217olp0.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:03:55 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> writes:

> On 03/01/2013 03:57:40 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> > And yet the glibc guys insist on #define  
>> GNU_GNU_GNU_ALL_HAIL_STALLMAN in
>> > order to access this Linux-specific feature which has nothing  
>> whatsoever to
>> > do with the FSF.
>> 
>> This is a misunderstanding. _GNU_SOURCE is the standard way to expose
>> Linux-specific functionality from POSIX header files.
>
> What standard? The Linux kernel is not, and never was, part of the GNU  
> project.

Is the argument that there should be a _LINUX_SOURCE directive in glibc
for this?

Although come to think of it I can't imagine how <sched.h> is a POSIX
header.  Last I looked it only had linux specific bits in it.  Which
makes needing any kind of #define strange.

Eric

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