From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29157 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2013 22:08:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29135 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2013 22:08:09 -0000 Received: from toast.topped-with-meat.com (HELO topped-with-meat.com) (204.197.218.159) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:08:09 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: topped-with-meat.com Received: by topped-with-meat.com (Postfix, from userid 5281) id DB3382C0A3; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:08:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: "Carlos O'Donell" Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , Mike Frysinger , libc-ports@sourceware.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hppa: add fanotify_mark In-Reply-To: Carlos O'Donell's message of Tuesday, 3 September 2013 12:03:15 -0400 <52260843.9010704@redhat.com> References: <1377100993-9438-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <1377728809-6729-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <5220DB3E.1040609@redhat.com> <20130830205130.CC81A2C06E@topped-with-meat.com> <52260843.9010704@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20130918220806.DB3382C0A3@topped-with-meat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:08:00 -0000 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=QZT14Krv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WkljmVdYkabdwxfqvArNOQ==:117 a=14OXPxybAAAA:8 a=sfBPIxnWuv4A:10 a=Z6MIti7PxpgA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=hOe2yjtxAAAA:8 a=Qzk9D1r97-MA:10 a=7rTiCNiilpzPLwbjb3kA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=ULXRORqD7o0A:10 a=5h1UJ78AFqgA:10 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 > On 08/30/2013 04:51 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: > > It just seems fundamentally wrong to backport a new symbol. > > It's nice to say that it's wrong, but what are the alternatives? Obviously, you just live without the symbol until you upgrade to a libc new enough to have it.