This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:22:17 -0700
Subject: Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
References: <1396499286 dot 85118 dot YahooMailNeo at web192405 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <1397301884 dot 32837 dot YahooMailNeo at web192402 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <534971E4 dot 6060001 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <53497633 dot 6060804 at redhat dot com> <1397324033 dot 69177 dot YahooMailNeo at web192403 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <5349A4B0 dot 2070206 at redhat dot com> <1397375798 dot 36419 dot YahooMailNeo at web192401 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <1397414803 dot 70882 dot YahooMailNeo at web192403 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <534B8A9F dot 8030806 at redhat dot com> <1397469748 dot 42212 dot YahooMailNeo at web192405 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <1398146221 dot 72442 dot YahooMailNeo at web192403 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <1398755742 dot 94004 dot YahooMailNeo at web192405 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <535F74EE dot 8010002 at redhat dot com> <1398775268 dot 92264 dot YahooMailNeo at web192405 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <535FC11B dot 3000906 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <1398801168 dot 81041 dot YahooMailNeo at web192406 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <5360378D dot 1060306 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <1398872997 dot 84757 dot YahooMailNeo at web192402 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com> <53614148 dot 90603 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <1398924427 dot 93061 dot YahooMailNeo at web192403 dot mail dot sg3 dot yahoo dot com>

P J P wrote:

it's an added task to ensure that the files inside chroot(2) jail are in sync with the ones on the host.

If you can't ensure that, then you can't ensure that the time zonebehaviors will be in sync, no matter what changes we make to glibc'sAPI. This should be obvious. Please fix that problem first, beforeworrying so much about the API issue.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
  - From: P J P

References:
- Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
  - From: P J P

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]