Your message dated Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:28:11 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#353031: has caused the Debian Bug report #353031, regarding posix_fadvise defines missing to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6-1 Severity: normal >From the man page: ---------------------------------------------------------------- NAME posix_fadvise - predeclare an access pattern for file data SYNOPSIS #include <fcntl.h> int posix_fadvise(int fd, off_t offset, off_t len, int advice); ---------------------------------------------------------------- My test program: ---------------------------------------------------------------- #include <fcntl.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[], char* envp[]) { posix_fadvise(0, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_NORMAL); } ---------------------------------------------------------------- The result: ---------------------------------------------------------------- bash-3.00$ gcc -Wall pfa.c pfa.c: In function 'main': pfa.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of function 'posix_fadvise' pfa.c:4: error: 'POSIX_FADV_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this function) pfa.c:4: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once pfa.c:4: error: for each function it appears in.) pfa.c:5: warning: control reaches end of non-void function ---------------------------------------------------------------- This seems to be a problem related to the "features.h" stuff. If I define _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 200112L then it works but then random other system functions aren't defined. (specifically "random" and "srandom"). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Michael Kerrisk wrote: > tags 353031 fixed-upstream > thanks > > I'm a little puzzled by this bug report, which I missed when it > originally was assigned to man-pages. Even back at the beginning of > 2006, the man-pages clearly documents the needed feature test macro: > > #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 > > And nowadays the SEE ALSO of the man page also lsits > feature_test_macros(7) under the SEE ALSO. > > From my (upstream) point of view, this bug should be closed. Fixed in 3.15-1 at least. Regards, Joey -- This is GNU/Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
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