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Re: Posix compliant cpu clocks V6 [2/3]: Glibc patch
- From: "Martijn Sipkema" <martijn at entmoot dot nl>
- To: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper at redhat dot com>,"Christoph Lameter" <clameter at sgi dot com>
- Cc: "George Anzinger" <george at mvista dot com>,<johnstul at us dot ibm dot com>,<Ulrich dot Windl at rz dot uni-regensburg dot de>,<jbarnes at sgi dot com>,<akpm at osdl dot org>,<linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>,<libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:53:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Posix compliant cpu clocks V6 [2/3]: Glibc patch
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From: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> The following patch makes glibc not provide the above clocks and use the
>> kernel clocks instead if either of the following condition is met:
>
> Did you ever hear about a concept called binary compatiblity? Don't
> bother working on any glibc patch.
The functionality should arguably not have been added to glibc in the first
place since its implementation was incorrect.
--ms