On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > "Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > >> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >>> This patch changes "Linux" to "GNU/Linux" in a comment. Bootstrapped >>> and ran libiberty testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to >>> mainline as libiberty maintainer. >> >> prctl is a Linux-kernel-specific syscall. The comment is describing what >> that syscall does in terms of Linux /proc datastructures. Are you using >> GNU/ because it also refers to userspace programs rather than purely to >> the kernel, even though "top" and "ps" are not GNU programs? > > I'm using it because RMS commented that there were uses of "linux" in > libiberty which should be "GNU/Linux," and it seemed easier to change > the only one I could see.
Interesting reason ;) But maybe there is no <foobar>/Linux with <foobar>!=GNU so it doesn't matter. Otherwise it would be technically incorrect and we should change it to "Linux, not only GNU/Linux" ;) Richard. > Ian >
