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Re: _ATFILE_SOURCE Obsoletion
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:41:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: _ATFILE_SOURCE Obsoletion
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On Okt 18 2017, Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net> wrote:
> Does it really serve a useful purpose to broaden the definition of
> _ATFILE_SOURCE? I understand the desire to cease support of historical
> artifacts, but I would rather remove support entirely than merely change
> the definition. While POSIX.1-2008 may imply __USE_ATFILE,
> _ATFILE_SOURCE does not necessarily imply all of POSIX.1-2008.
Is _ATFILE_SOURCE actually used in the wild in the strict sense?
Andreas.
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