From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io>
Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't look for kernel version if not running on linux
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170427180231.GB2061@stream> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a56b5074-0fc2-6011-9b40-18e449a4a038@qt.io>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:08:48PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote:
> We don't want to use it, even if it exists.
I am not sure this is really the right place to patch.
The value is retrieved through uname () which is POSIX and so should
be available even on non-GNU/Linux systems. When kernel_release ()
returns NULL the callers expect errno to be set so they can use it
to return a failure code.
Cheers,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-27 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 14:08 Ulf Hermann
2017-04-27 19:41 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2017-04-28 11:10 ` Ulf Hermann
2017-05-02 11:49 ` Ulf Hermann
2017-05-03 10:50 ` Mark Wielaard
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