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Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso at mit dot edu>
- Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol at google dot com>, Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs dot Nagy at arm dot com>, Dave P Martin <Dave dot Martin at arm dot com>, nd <nd at arm dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, Joel Fernandes <joelaf at google dot com>, Linux API <linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org>, Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt dot eu>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse dot cz>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:29:43 +0000
- Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> That's great. But is it or is it not true (either de jure or de
> facto) that "a single active glibc developer" can block a system call
> from being supported by glibc by objecting? And if not, under what is
> the process by resolving a conflict?
We use a consensus-building process as described at
<https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus>.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com