> > > I think we should disallow direct inclusion of <linux/*.h> in Glibc, any > > > comments? > > > > This is not an issue related to the Hurd at all. If you think that this > > should be done, for whatever reason, you need to talk to the glibc > > maintainers. > > I know. But this seriously affects portability to non-Linux-based systems, > which includes GNU/Hurd. > I'm really sick of encountering programs that break because of arbitrarily > including <linux/*.h> stuff. Today I just recieved a patch for a program I > maintain that adds an #include on <linux/limits.h> just to get the PATH_MAX > macro. I'm going mad with this kind of stuff. > > If people really want Linux-specific features, let them define _USE_LINUX or > something like that.
Same problem for BSD porters. This is _really_ annoying for every non-Linux porter/maintainer out there. I'd strongly support such a move; perhaps starting with a deprecation #warn-ing, and later changing this to a hard #error. > Robert Millan -- Farid Hajji. http://www.farid-hajji.net/address.html _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
