From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62930 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2017 15:02:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 58414 invoked by uid 89); 5 Apr 2017 15:02:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=reserved X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:02:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Szabolcs Nagy CC: daurnimator , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v3][BZ 21340] add support for POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID In-Reply-To: <58E4EA03.3060206@arm.com> Message-ID: References: <20170405054116.9007-1-quae@daurnimator.com> <58E4EA03.3060206@arm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 05/04/17 13:31, Joseph Myers wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, daurnimator wrote: > >> 2017-04-05 Daurnimator > >> > >> [BZ #21340] > >> * conform/data/spawn.h-data: Add POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID flag. > > > > You should never add a symbol to the conform/ expectations unless it is > > actually defined by a released standard. In a case like this, of a symbol > > intended to be added in a future version, it should not be in the conform/ > > data, and should be conditioned on __USE_GNU in the headers. > > i dont see why the __USE_GNU is necessary. Although there are a few exceptions (e.g. errno numbers), common practice in glibc is not to rely on reserved namespaces other than _[_A-Z]* and to declare symbols only for the relevant standards (and likewise for link-time namespace). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com