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List:       hurd-bug
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] libdiskfs: expose the ST_NOATIME flag
From:       Pino Toscano <toscano.pino () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2013-05-10 21:26:22
Message-ID: 201305102326.22994.toscano.pino () tiscali ! it
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Alle venerd́ 10 maggio 2013, Roland McGrath ha scritto:
> I'm more inclined to just use things unconditionally and say that you
> need to update your libc install before you build the Hurd. 

I would agree if the features were in some stable release of glibc, 
while they are just in glibc's master since few hours.
I'm not sure it is worth making hurd not compile even with the latest 
stable glibc just for something which is not critical, after all. I 
don't want to make contributions a bit more complicated.

> #ifdef's in the code as if it were really intended to apply to a
> variety of environments is just icky.

Well, there are two cases only (at least for this flag): glibc >= 2.18 
(not released yet) which has it, and glibc < 2.18 which doesn't.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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