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Re: [PATCH 2/2] crypt.3, encrypt.3: Add notes about _XOPEN_CRYPT.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/14/2018 09:11 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>>
>>   What about the second part of the suggestion. The crypt.3 manpage
>> currently suggests including <unistd.h>, with _XOPEN_SOURCE defined,
>> and that does not work with current glibc.
>
>
> Current Fedora glibc.  We need to align the Fedora behavior with upstream
> again, either by lobbying for an upstream change, or changing Fedora back to
> how things were before.

Zack mentions reasons that crypt.h is already in use, and glibc itself
is already documenting the use of crypt.h instead of unistd.h [0].
uclibc also provides crypt.h [1]. Wouldn't that be a sufficient reason
to make the manpage document crypt.h as primary?


[0]. https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/crypt.html
[1]. https://git.busybox.net/uClibc/tree/include/crypt.h
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