[Python-Dev] Snake farm (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
10 Nov 2002 21:40:55 +0100

Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> writes:

> I don't like this approach. For -CURRENT, I would outright reject any > such patch; there should be a way to enable extensions even if _A somewhat simpler solution/work-around would be to define BSDVISIBLE (patch attached). But the cleanest way would be to not define XOPENSOURCE, XOPENSOURCEEXTENDED and POSIXCSOURCE on FreeBSD 5.

Notice that issues are different on the various BSDs.

I think of Python on Unix as "POSIX+Extensions". On all POSIX systems, _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined. If additional defines are needed to activate extensions, we should define them.

If FreeBSD has no mechanisms to request extensions other than defining __BSD_VISIBLE, we should define it. Before doing so, I'd like to know what Python features would need that.

Please don't post patches to python-dev.

> OTOH, why absence of chroot a problem? Should not HAVECHROOT be > undefined if chroot is hidden? It isn't.

Ok, then this needs to be investigated. This is a clear bug.

Regards, Martin