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Re: [PATCH] [BZ #12724] libio: revert partial POSIX 2008 fclose support


On Saturday 01 December 2012 13:57:10 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> > On 12/01/2012 07:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> In BZ #12724, partial support for POSIX 2008 fclose behavior was added.
> >> Since it isn't entirely conforming to the spec, some applications are
> >> known to be breaking in this intermediate state.  So revert the partial
> >> support until we can get things fully implemented.
> >> 
> >> This reverts commit fcabc0f8b185f9e0a9289720be5ede6c39b3bf21.
> > 
> > openSUSE is carrying this patch for ages and I think other distros as
> > well, I'm fine with applying it,
> 
> I'm happy as long as two conditions are met:
> 
> (a) We have a bug open to fix this.
> 
> (b) The bug gets marked P1, and milestone 2.18.
> 
> I'd like to see this get fixed for real.

BZ 12724 is the bug tracking POSIX 2008 fclose support.  so we can update its 
labels/targets.
-mike

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