From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 73910 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2015 21:15:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-patches-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Archive: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 73892 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jun 2015 21:15:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:15:54 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40FA9351E68 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.113.115] (ovpn-113-115.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.115]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t5HLFque023036 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: <5581E384.9030608@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:15:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hide sethostname() in unistd.h References: <55804E7D.3060504@t-online.de> <20150616174551.GF31537@calimero.vinschen.de> <558107F2.3030809@t-online.de> <20150617084626.GI31537@calimero.vinschen.de> <5581D7C4.1000207@t-online.de> <1434574654.11212.4.camel@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <1434574654.11212.4.camel@cygwin.com> OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p0Ckb5end4BIEtgNolmCBChUv8Io342bE" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-q2/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --p0Ckb5end4BIEtgNolmCBChUv8Io342bE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1100 On 06/17/2015 02:57 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >> Busybox does not use autoconf or similar. It requires manual platform=20 >> specific configuration which does not yet support a missing=20 >> sethostname(). After adding HAVE_SETHOSTNAME manually and some other=20 >> minor additions, busybox (which many commands enabled) compiles and=20 >> works reasonably. >> Would ITP make sense ? >=20 > TBH I'm not sure. Presuming you're discussing the single-executable > build (so as not to clobber coreutils etc.), there is still the question > of (not) matching the heavily-patched coreutils wrt .exe handling etc. > What do you think the use case would be? Portability testing is one thing - I often compare how bash/dash/zsh/mksh handle a shell construct, and adding busybox sh into the mix adds another perspective. But yeah, I don't see busybox becoming the default source of these apps, so much as an alternative implementation. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --p0Ckb5end4BIEtgNolmCBChUv8Io342bE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 604 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVgeOEAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqGuMH+gOCFWU9iPmd7xag6o5iJGxF UGQaRerVW0vkYykipY2JNlgfyTWk3MOcFU3dwrPLt1lyj39WaFmm49nczJqATOEI i4CEqnFdX4D3YdappkgVU/7C2wm3PRYOSV5mLP3uvFfBPBUI2wvM8BWQaMemRV1T UIau2Vc8054IuEq7RjEOv08UBhiJdmcZUgPdjCyEtgOMaBM14CqOXOGu/Z7FHY10 paJTDMJfIShE8fT+kAxWy2QA8vKVkGUWnV0GjpqO9mstrcwUyZ4WIM6+p1Thu8uB D4QBgQTqV23aszIDzDHZOy76PUM+WkkvimkAHOyXzvJHVWSK1rQTnbPPBKoISgQ= =x02+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p0Ckb5end4BIEtgNolmCBChUv8Io342bE--