Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#3275 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Sync Glibc with Linux 3.7

Reported by: Armin Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.3
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description (last modified by bdubbs@…)

There are some commits in Glibc git that sync some features with kernel 3.7. 

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=318cd0b
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=b540704
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=fc1abbe

Archlinux has them combined in one patch

​https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/glibc-2.17-sync-with-linux37.patch?h=packages/glibc

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Armin, 12 years ago 

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=318cd0b
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=b540704
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=fc1abbe

Doh ...

comment:2 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

It's hard to understand what these would do. They are only #defines. A program would need to actually use the defines to make them useful. My initial reaction is to wait for the next glibc release.

in reply to:  3 comment:4 by Matthew Burgess, 12 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Replying to bdubbs@…:

My initial reaction is to wait for the next glibc release.

That's my initial, albeit somewhat delayed, reaction too.

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