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

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
11 Nov 2002 19:25:55 +0100

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

The responsible person seems to be against a solution like this. But, in the discussion it turns out that you are right and there some bugs in FreeBSD's unistd.h. The fixes will (probably) committed today. But there are some issues left mostly in the RPC and socket code, which need _BSDVISIBLE.

Please be as precise as possible when talking about this stuff. What issues precisely?

I'm not going to accept patches for platform-specific changes just because a user said that these changes are needed "to make it work". Instead, I want to record the precise cause that triggered these changes, so that others can re-evaluate whether they are still needed five years from now.

Some problems are left, because some functions (like ftello) are only defined at a higher POSIX level.

Why is that a problem?

> > > Only if all other options have been exhausted. What problems occur if > > > XOPENSOURCE is defined? > > XOPENSOURCE sets POSIXCSOURCE. > > And why is that a problem? _In that case BSDVISIBLE is not set.

And why is that a problem?

This is exhausting.

Regards, Martin