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Re: Add fcntl sealing interfaces from Linux 3.17 to bits/fcntl-linux.h

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:00:31 -0700
Subject: Re: Add fcntl sealing interfaces from Linux 3.17 to bits/fcntl-linux.h
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References: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709061529570.2445@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <20170908112549.GA12917@altlinux.org> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709081614450.16313@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On 09/08/2017 09:16 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:

glibc tends to use the "Likewise." style more than is required by the GNU
Coding Standards; I'm not sure why.

It's inertia. As I recall the GNU Coding Standards formerly recommended"Likewise", and they still have a circa-1998 example using it(unnecessarily, I might add). This was before they extended ChangeLogformat to make "Likewise" largely unnecessary.

References:
- Add fcntl sealing interfaces from Linux 3.17 to bits/fcntl-linux.h
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: Add fcntl sealing interfaces from Linux 3.17 to bits/fcntl-linux.h
  - From: Dmitry V. Levin
- Re: Add fcntl sealing interfaces from Linux 3.17 to bits/fcntl-linux.h
  - From: Joseph Myers

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