Re: CVS commit: src

2010-12-17 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:14:05PM +, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> Log Message:
> There is no harm to add a manual page for the GNU typeof()-construct, given
> that it has already crawled into the source tree.

A related note: should we provide typeof(3) in the restricted namespace
instead, i.e. as __typeof(3)?

- Jukka.


Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc

2010-12-17 Thread Antti Kantee
On Fri Dec 17 2010 at 22:03:46 +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Fri Dec 17 2010 at 21:56:59 +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > Provide a re-entrant and thread-safe set of timezone API's that
> > > don't require locking and can operate on user-specified timezones
> > > as opposed to having to alter the environment to change a timezone.
> > > This work was presented to the tzcode folks and it was generally
> > > accepted, but there seems to be a lot of inertia.
> > 
> > I am not sure yet, but it may be that this broke for instance lang/python.
> > The autoconfiguration process hangs at:
> > 
> > checking for tzset... 
> 
> See lib/44246.

Err, 44248

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Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc

2010-12-17 Thread Antti Kantee
On Fri Dec 17 2010 at 21:56:59 +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Provide a re-entrant and thread-safe set of timezone API's that
> > don't require locking and can operate on user-specified timezones
> > as opposed to having to alter the environment to change a timezone.
> > This work was presented to the tzcode folks and it was generally
> > accepted, but there seems to be a lot of inertia.
> 
> I am not sure yet, but it may be that this broke for instance lang/python.
> The autoconfiguration process hangs at:
> 
>   checking for tzset... 

See lib/44246.

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Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc

2010-12-17 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Log Message:
> Provide a re-entrant and thread-safe set of timezone API's that
> don't require locking and can operate on user-specified timezones
> as opposed to having to alter the environment to change a timezone.
> This work was presented to the tzcode folks and it was generally
> accepted, but there seems to be a lot of inertia.

I am not sure yet, but it may be that this broke for instance lang/python.
The autoconfiguration process hangs at:

checking for tzset... 

- Jukka.


Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man7

2010-12-17 Thread John Nemeth
On May 6,  1:09pm, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
} On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:16:36AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
} >  Silly question, but why would it go in section 4?  Section 4 is
} > for devices.  module(4) doesn't represent any kind of device.  Seems to
} > me that section 7 would be the best place.
} 
} Done and done. While I am at it, even though CVS is what it is, should we
} move few other things to the section 7 as well? At least security(8) comes
} to mind, although the section 8, "NetBSD System Manager's Manual", is kind
} of all-encompassing.

Section 8 is normally for administrator commands, so yeah, it
security(8) probably belongs in section 7 too.

}-- End of excerpt from Jukka Ruohonen