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Re: miscellaneous patch questions...
- To: Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
- Subject: Re: miscellaneous patch questions...
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 1998 15:59:32 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- References: <19980816004032.A16595@mindcryme.com>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> First of all, the ioctl patch I submitted. Is it acceptable for
> inclusion? If not, any specific thing I should fix?
I have to look through my backlog.
> Second, chown. I understand why we do not want to propogate the ugly
> i386 fix to PPC, but without it a glibc built against recent kernel
> headers requires a recent kernel to work.
I told already several times that I don't make this decision for all
ports. The port maintainer (for PPC I consider this Geoff Keating)
must make the call.
> And last, is there a particular reason why the /usr/bin/ldd shell
> script prints an error message if you do not have execute permissions
> for the file in question?
I've aded code to redirect warnings and error messages to stderr.
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