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Message-ID: <CAKgNAkiH+BTOpGd5nr7JU8mrYVNJE6oxiS-+YjKQxFkdsrR-jA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:50:02 +0100
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.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

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> wrote:
> 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.

This is "the standard way that glibc isolates Linux-specific
functionality in POSIX header files".

Thanks,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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