Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 03/01/2013 03:57:40 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> > And yet the glibc guys insist on #define
>>> GNU_GNU_GNU_ALL_HAIL_STALLMAN in
>>> > order to access this Linux-specific feature which has nothing
>>> whatsoever to
>>> > do with the FSF.
>>>
>>> This is a misunderstanding. _GNU_SOURCE is the standard way to expose
>>> Linux-specific functionality from POSIX header files.
>>
>> What standard? The Linux kernel is not, and never was, part of the GNU
>> project.
>
> Is the argument that there should be a _LINUX_SOURCE directive in glibc
> for this?
>
> Although come to think of it I can't imagine how <sched.h> is a POSIX
> header.  Last I looked it only had linux specific bits in it.  Which
> makes needing any kind of #define strange.

I think you may be thinking of the wrong sched.h. The glibc
/usr/include/sched.h declares many user-space functions from POSIX.


Cheers,

Mcihael
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