libreplace on Linux was (Re: Changing back to per-thread credentials on Linux (fixing native AIO).)
Rusty Russell
rusty at ozlabs.org
Thu Jun 28 23:18:04 MDT 2012
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:42:56 +1000, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> The other concern I have is that libreplace has in general been about
> ensuring that the Linux interface is available everywhere, but this
> isn't the Linux interface, it is a custom Samba interface being called
> by the Linux name.
>
> The distinction matters, because on Linux, we had actually got to the
> point where with waf, libreplace actually became a no-op (libbsd is used
> for the strl* functions). (Jelmer was keen on this).
Nice: it's a commonly-used library so it's not an onerous requirement,
and means we don't have to maintain any code (I wish they'd do err, though).
But I don't think libreplace is ever going to empty for long, because there
will always be bugs :(
Cheers,
Rusty.
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