Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:26:44 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP |
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Samuel Thibault wrote: > H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a écrit : >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> Is there any way to fix this? Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it >>>> on their part, see >>>> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363 >>> Hi, >>> >>> Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel machine was >>> finished.. is it finished yet ? ;=) >>> >>> this is part of the ABI, so we can't change this in 2006... >>> >> If ENOTSUP is currently unused and is only there for completeness, then >> it should be fine to add it. > > The functions that should be returning it instead of EOPNOTSUP should be > fixed too. >
The two can't be done at the same time. In fact, the two probably can't be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them.
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