Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:13:20 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 conflict |
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Hi Peter,
On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:30:22 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:35 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > In asm-generic/fcntl.h, F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 both have value 12, and > > F_GETOWN_EX and F_SETLK64 both have value 13. I don't see how this is > > going to work correctly. See > > <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-10/msg00013.html>. > > > Ugh,.. yeah, non obvious collision that.
This is why we have F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE and use it in include/linux/fcntl.h ... it should be used as a base for any new fcntl types since they don't require backward compatibility.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |