From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2638 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:01:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20130120080137.GF27914@port70.net> References: <20130119061842.GA3410@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358668914 6817 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2013 08:01:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:01:54 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2639-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jan 20 09:02:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Twpr0-0003Eq-UC for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 1780 invoked by uid 550); 20 Jan 2013 08:01:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 1760 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2013 08:01:49 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130119061842.GA3410@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2638 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [2013-01-19 01:18:43 -0500]: > The remaining agenda items from the previous thread about this release > cycle are: > > - strverscmp > - zoneinfo > - inet_makeaddr > - scanf %m modifier > - getifaddrs > - cpuset/affinity interfaces > - ether.h interfaces there is a remaining netinet/tcp.h issue: SOL_TCP is neither posix, nor bsd, but linux has it and glibc has it under bsd||svid opensolaris is supposed to be based on svr4 and it does not have it either and win sockets use IPPROTO_TCP as well SOL_TCP well might be a linux accident: old kernels seem to made a distinction between the socket level argument of setsockopt and the protocol id in the ip header, then following bsd the two were made equal, but the semantic distinction was kept in kernel code (SOL_SOCKET is an exception, it collides with IPPROTO_ICMP) http://kernelhistory.sourcentral.org/linux-0.99.14n/S/27.html#L51 vs http://kernelhistory.sourcentral.org/linux-0.99.14u/S/27.html#L51 thus many linux networking code uses SOL_TCP as setsockopt argument and that's what strace prints SO* is reserved for sys/socket.h by posix so we can put SOL_* there or use feature test macros in tcp.h