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Re: [PATCH] [BZ #12724] libio: revert partial POSIX 2008 fclose support


On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2012 13:57:10 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
>> > On 12/01/2012 07:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> In BZ #12724, partial support for POSIX 2008 fclose behavior was added.
>> >> Since it isn't entirely conforming to the spec, some applications are
>> >> known to be breaking in this intermediate state.  So revert the partial
>> >> support until we can get things fully implemented.
>> >>
>> >> This reverts commit fcabc0f8b185f9e0a9289720be5ede6c39b3bf21.
>> >
>> > openSUSE is carrying this patch for ages and I think other distros as
>> > well, I'm fine with applying it,
>>
>> I'm happy as long as two conditions are met:
>>
>> (a) We have a bug open to fix this.
>>
>> (b) The bug gets marked P1, and milestone 2.18.
>>
>> I'd like to see this get fixed for real.
>
> BZ 12724 is the bug tracking POSIX 2008 fclose support.  so we can update its
> labels/targets.
> -mike

I've updated BZ #12724.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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