Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: Bug in getloadavg

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs has a different mechanism for this.  cloexec would not work
> anyway.
>
> I think getloadavg.c should simply call some functions to do this, and
> it should use an interface that will work without explicit
> declarations.

But gnulib has to port to C99, and C99 requires that every function be
explicitly declared, even functions that return 'int'.

Perhaps the simplest solution is to use "#ifdef emacs"?  This will
also handle the free vs. xfree discrepancy.  If you like, I can code
up a solution along those lines.  (It would save me a bit of time if
you told me Emacs's mechanism for close-on-exec.)