Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:58:14 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/21] powerpc: Use generic posix_types.h |
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On 02/16/2012 12:26 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:44 +0000, David Howells wrote: >> PowerPC exports __FD_SET() and co. to userspace under some circumstances, >> therefore this patch potentially breaks the userspace ABI. Is this okay, Ben? > > I don't know why we would need that in userspace, unless some tools I > don't know about exploit them (hint: there shouldn't be) > > I'm happy to remove them and see if anybody complains. >
I think they are cut-and-paste from the old libc5-enabled i386. Note that __GNUC__ disables it.
-hpa
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