Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libpthread
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 12/08/2003 03:14:34
In article <270E0BFE-292C-11D8-A795-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
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>On Dec 7, 2003, at 7:04 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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>> Ah, but they are in the posix standard, we have man pages for them, and
>> programs expect them to be there otherwise they don't compile/link. Can
>> you please read the source before you lean on the capslock?
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>They are *optional* in the POSIX standard, and there is a way to test 
>if they are present at compile-time.  If we don't implement them in any 
>meaningful way, then there should be only two options:
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>	1. Implement them completely.
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>	2. Disable the manual pages for them.

What do you think is meaningful? Right now we get the values correctly,
and we fail of ENOTSUP if we try to set something we cannot do.

christos