[klibc] Re: [PATCH] gen_init_cpio uses external file list

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Sep 16 19:36:07 PDT 2004


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 19:06 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>>> Seems OK to me...
>>>
>>>     Jeff, the original gen_init_cpio author
>>
>> There's been some minor discussion about the use of _GNU_SOURCE (needed
>> for getline()).  Comments?  I can rework the getline() if anyone can
>> make a case - otherwise I'm a bit lazy.
> 
> I am a bit leery of _GNU_SOURCE but whatever :)
> 

_GNU_SOURCE just means enable all features.  Perhaps it should be 
something more restrictive, like _XOPEN_SOURCE or _POSIX_SOURCE; both of 
those need to be set to specific values.

	-hpa



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