From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28762 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2022 15:22:25 -0000 Received: from second.openwall.net (193.110.157.125) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jul 2022 15:22:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 31746 invoked by uid 550); 11 Jul 2022 15:22:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 30699 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2022 15:22:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:22:05 -0400 From: Rich Felker To: Tomasz Duda Cc: Florian Weimer , musl@lists.openwall.com Message-ID: <20220711152205.GY7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <875yk48dbv.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> <874jzo6q0x.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [musl] AF_LOCAL On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 05:04:15PM +0900, Tomasz Duda wrote: > Done is better than perfect. It prevents some applications from starting so > it is pretty bad. No, inconsistent is worse than not at all. Not-at-all forces applications to fix the wrong assumption. Inconsistent means applications compile and run but silently (in sense of not producing an error at build and/or run time) do the wrong thing on some systems. One of the main criteria for exclusion of an extension from musl is the existence of multiple conflicting historical definitions for the same extension. > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 16:56 Florian Weimer wrote: > > > * Tomasz Duda: > > > > > It seems to be implemented in other libs. > > > > Yes, but not in a consistent fashion. > > > > Thanks, > > Florian > > > >