symbols x platforms matrix

Hi, On 2009-11-26 I asked for raw data for the symbols x platforms matrix. Thanks for your contributions. An updated package is now available at http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/various-symlists.tar.gz The package is useful each time you want to check the portability of a symbol which is not co

Re: unistd.h: daemon

On Sunday, November 21, 2010 18:45:26 Bruno Haible wrote: > There's even a package that wraps a shell command 'daemonize' around it: > git://github.com/bmc/daemonize.git the even more standard `setsid` does the same thing minus the fd closure -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: unistd.h: daemon

Hi Simon, > Glibc has a 'daemon' function, which is from BSD, however it is not > documented in the glibc manual [1] and it is not in POSIX. > [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12251 There are many more functions in glibc that are not documented in texinfo format. But it's docume

unistd.h: daemon

Glibc has a 'daemon' function, which is from BSD, however it is not documented in the glibc manual [1] and it is not in POSIX. Mike noticed that InetUtils is using it: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs/3040/focus=3041 This begs the question of whether using the 'daemon' inter

update doc regarding NetBSD

A doc update, to take into account NetBSD 5.0 and 5.0.1. 2010-11-21 Bruno Haible Update for NetBSD 5.0. * m4/printf.m4 (gl_PRINTF_INFINITE_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't guess yes on NetBSD; the test fails on NetBSD 5.0. * doc/{glibc,posix,pastposix}-{headers,functions}/*.

update doc regarding HP-UX

A couple of functions have been added to HP-UX 11.23 and 11.31. Let me update the documentation. 2010-11-21 Bruno Haible Update for HP-UX 11.23 and HP-UX 11.31. * doc/{glibc,posix}-{headers,functions}/*.texi: Update info about HP-UX. --- doc/glibc-functions/flock.texi

update doc regarding MacOS X

I'm updating the doc regarding MacOS X 10.5. 2010-11-21 Bruno Haible Update for MacOS X 10.5. * m4/printf.m4 (gl_PRINTF_INFINITE_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't guess yes on MacOS X; the test fails on MacOS X 10.5.8. * doc/{glibc,posix,pastposix}-{headers,functions}/*.texi

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.

Hi Jim, On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > Personally I wouldn't worry about MSYS or even NFS/Solaris. > As far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to push your change. > If someone finds a way to make it misbehave, I'm sure > it'll be fixed promptly. I've pushed it. Thanks.

Re: Port of forkpty to all Unix platforms

Hello, Ross Mohn wrote: > I'm writing in reference to an email you wrote, I think to the > bug-gnulib newsgroup. That email contains some diff code for a forkpty > function, but I'm wondering if you have a full source file you could > send me to get forkpty running on AIX 6.1? You find the source

Re: interest in extensible array module?

Hello Riccardo, > I wrote an "extensible array" code as part of a larger project, and > thought it could be of some interest to GNUlib. However, I'm not sure > it does not fall into the category of "stuff that would be better > packaged separately", so I'm inquiring here first, before wrapping it

interest in extensible array module?

Hello GNUlib authors, I wrote an "extensible array" code as part of a larger project, and thought it could be of some interest to GNUlib. However, I'm not sure it does not fall into the category of "stuff that would be better packaged separately", so I'm inquiring here first, before wrapping it u

Re: [PATCH] printf-parse: pull in features.h for __GLIBC__

On Saturday, November 20, 2010 17:50:44 Bruno Haible wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > --- a/lib/printf-parse.h > > +++ b/lib/printf-parse.h > > @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ > > > > #include "printf-args.h" > > > > +#ifdef HAVE_FEATURES_H > > +# include /* for __GLIBC__ */ > > +#endif > > > > /* Fl