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Re: Signals and errno
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:47:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: Signals and errno
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On 02/12/2014 08:37 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 10:46 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 12/17/2013 04:57 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>>>> <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=807>
>
>>> How likely is that the Austin Group will ever close this ticket, even
>>> with a indeterminate conclusion like "the standard does not specify
>>> errno-restoring behavior"? How long should we wait for such a
>>> resolution? (I think it's too late for this change for 2.19
>>> anyway.)
>>
>> If by "close" you mean "fix the language of the standard in some way,"
>> then it's very likely. However someone needs to drive the process to
>> get consensus on exactly what language change you want. Repost a final
>> requested set of changes and ask for agreement? It's just like
>> in glibc, repost, get consensus, refine, final agreement, and then it
>> will likely go into Issue 8 of POSIX.
>
> As you can see, I added a proposal to the issue tracker at the URL
> above, but there hasn't been a reaction. Any suggestions?
Talk to people and ask them to comment? ;-)
Cheers,
Carlos.