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Re: [PATCH 2/2] linkat: remove a redundant configure time check
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] linkat: remove a redundant configure time check |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:32:26 +0000 |
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On 10/31/2014 06:25 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> * m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): The compile check for AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW
> was rundundant for a few reasons. It was present to support compiling
> on new systems but running on the old narrow window of Linux 2.6.1[67].
> It setup and cleaned up test files which weren't actually used.
> On non __linux__ it compile tested AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW, but that is
> implicit in the following check.
Actually a better summary would be:
linkat: don't unconditionally replace on GNU/Linux