Re: [patch] linux/{socket,stat}.h: change __GLIBC__ cruft to__KLIBC__

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:37:50AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The __GLIBC__ hacks were re-added to the headers because the klibc peeps want
> to be lazy.  But rather than properly address things, they just wrongly left
> it as __GLIBC__.  This patch changes the __GLIBC__ cruft to __KLIBC__ so real
> libcs don't get screwed due to kilbc's laziness.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
> index c22ef1c..90af15b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/socket.h
> +++ b/include/linux/socket.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage {
>  				/* _SS_MAXSIZE value minus size of ss_family */
>  } __attribute__ ((aligned(_K_SS_ALIGNSIZE)));	/* force desired alignment */
>  
> -#if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2)
> +#if defined(__KERNEL__) || defined(__KLIBC__)
>...

This changes the semantics from "!glibc" to "klibc".

I'm a bit worried that such changes might break some of the other 
libc's people use on Linux.

cu
Adrian

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