Re: Adding aio.h and mqueue.h

[Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 11:10 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Dec  2 08:15, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 4:07 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec  1 18:22, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > > > As long as the licensing is shared-newlib-compatible (non-GPL), it
> should
> > > > be ok.
> > > >
> > > > -- Jeff J.
> > >
> > > Cygwin already comes with aio.h and mqueue.h headers.
> > >
> > > Ideally they are reused for newlib, or the new aio.h/mqueue.h headers
> > > are checked that they provide the same definitions and replace the
> > > Cygwin-only ones.
> > >
> >
> > OK. So the same defines with the same values? Anything cygwin specific
> > goes into an ifdef, etc. I vaguely recall doing this before for other
> > header files.
>
> There shouldn't be much Cygwin-specifc in these files and they are quite
> short.  Please check the Cygwin files against the files from RTEMS.
> Maybe it makes sense to use them instead and just add the (minor)
> differences to Cygwin.  If the types used have the same size and the
> same signedness, there shouldn't be much of a problem anyway.
>
> However, I'd like to defer this by a few days or weeks.  We're just
> in the beta phase for Cygwin 3.4, and I would rather have stable
> headers for now :
>

We are also trying to get ready for a release branch. I think I'll push our
tickets to a new milestone. That seems to be better for both projects.

With any luck, I can revisit the long double code around then also.

>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
>