Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions | Date | Sat, 13 Jun 1998 03:12:04 +0100 (BST) |
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> old place. You simply cannot compare the total ommission of the > llseek prototype with the. The glibc API is intended to be different > from the libc5 API. The changes are not made because some standards > demands them but instead because the libc5 made it wrong and we > haven't made this error while developing glibc in parallel. It > becomes time to remove all the #ifdef __linux__ from the sources and > use the code which all platforms can use.
As anyone who lives in the commercial world will tell you, breaking compatibility is frequently a bigger mistake than trying to ignore past mistakes. You are without a doubt right that -D_POSIX_SOURCE et al should not include llseek. You are without a doubt wrong to have not included as close to full libc5 compatibility for -D_LINUX_SOURCE.
The glibc folks seem so intent on standards they've forgotten people have to use the stuff perhaps.
Alan
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