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Re: Remove _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 23:40:06 +0000
- Subject: Re: Remove _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE
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- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1312052315530 dot 16480 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20131216225338 dot 6FA7E7442E at topped-with-meat dot com> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1312172307580 dot 3620 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20131220211322 dot F039874435 at topped-with-meat dot com>
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Perhaps I'm being too conservative, but my knee-jerk reaction is that we
> should have a release cycle with no change but the introduction of
> _DEFAULT_SOURCE.
Ping for the minimal patch
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-12/msg00652.html>, now 2.19 is
out with _DEFAULT_SOURCE and the __FAVOR_BSD removal. (Obviously a new
NEWS entry would go under the 2.20 section in NEWS rather than applying
the NEWS changes from that patch.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com