[klibc] inclusion of alias handling in klibc insmod

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Jan 29 20:46:56 PST 2006


On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:37:27PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Vassilis Virvilis <vasvir at iit.demokritos.gr> wrote:
> > getopt_long():
> > First version has a short cirquited version of getopt_long()
> > based on getopt() which simply ignores --long options.
> 
> Some of those long options are important, at least for what I want to
> do.  Why not just replace them with comparable short options?  Is
> there some unspoken rule that klib versions of utilities need to
> perfectly match glibc versions?
> 
> On a side note, has anyone also ported udevd to klibc?  Or, does udevd
> work out of the box running against klibc?  I haven't tried just yet
> (rebooting is annoying)

udev used to carry a copy of klibc with it, and has worked with klibc
from the very first release all those years ago.

thanks,

greg k-h



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