Bug#369402: sys/inotify.h

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Biebl
reopen 369402
thanks

There is quite a lot software out there today which uses inotify.
Each of this package has to be updated to ship a private copy of the
inotify syscall. Using linux/inotify.h is not a good option.

Please consider to patch/backport sys/inotify from current upstream
glibc.h, so this software can be compiled unaltered.

Cheers,
Michael
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Bug#369402: sys/inotify.h

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
 Version: 2.5-0exp6
 
 Michael Biebl a écrit :
 reopen 369402
 thanks

 There is quite a lot software out there today which uses inotify.
 Each of this package has to be updated to ship a private copy of the
 inotify syscall. Using linux/inotify.h is not a good option.

 Please consider to patch/backport sys/inotify from current upstream
 glibc.h, so this software can be compiled unaltered.

 
 Etch is frozen nothing can be added. Please use glibc 2.5 from experimental.
 
 Closing the bug with the version from experimental.

Well then, let's hope we get out etch soon and glibc 2.5 in unstable.

I wanted to start working on hal-0.5.9 which has the above problem and I
wanted to avoid having to patch hal for that. upstream has no interest
to support glibc  2.4. I already did this dance with tracker and
upstart and don't want to do it again. I guess hal will have to wait then...

Cheers,
Michael

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