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RE: popen bug, extension
Another minor quibble is that the popen documentation is missing
"const" from both arguments.
Craig
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From: newlib-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:newlib-owner@sourceware.org]
On Behalf Of Eric Blake
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:44 PM
To: Jeff Johnston
Cc: newlib@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: popen bug, extension
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According to Jeff Johnston on 8/18/2009 10:17 AM:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Go ahead and commit. Just fix the typo "wries" in your documentation.
>
> 2009-08-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
>
> Improve popen compatibility with glibc.
> * libc/posix/popen.c (popen): The 2006-08-22 change to use
> FD_CLOEXEC disagrees with other implementations; instead, use
> pidlist to work even when fcntl is not available. Meanwhile,
> support the 'e' modifier to set CLOEXEC, as in glibc. Drop
> cygwin-specific code, now that cygwin has its own version.
> * libc/posix/Makefile.am (CHEWOUT_FILES): Document popen.
> * libc/posix/posix.tex: New file.
Done with the corrected docs. However, I did not regenerate
Makefile.in,
as I don't have my environment set up for that at the moment.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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