Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 07:11:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The header <sys/ioctl.h>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Tom Demmer wrote:

> > ports of many programs.  I suggest that the Unix part be ifdefed away for
> > now, and only those parts are to be activated for which we have full
> > support (tested by building the programs which use these symbols). 
> 
> Hmm. That's why they are inside #if/#endif right now.

Yes, but it's ``#if 1'', not ``#if 0'', so it's active.

> or something like that. The reason why I do not like the idea of 
> throwing this completely away is that some file system extension 
> might make use of them. OTOH not breaking GNU utils has definitly a 
> higher priority. 

I suggest we only keep those definitions that filesystem extensions need 
or might need, and leave out the rest.  If after that some GNU utilities 
won't build, we will have to deal with that one problem at a time.  Right 
now I'm not sure how to deal with each such problem, because I don't know 
which parts of the header are required and which just were lumped there 
from the Unix original.  Somebody who knows about the filesystem 
extensions more than me should do the initial filtering.