From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Should Glibc API be changed? Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <569CDB81.6040600@redhat.com> <569D4A94.8000507@redhat.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453211597 22673 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 13:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:53:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 14:53:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWia-0004ip-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:53:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWia-0005CK-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWiF-00058i-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWiE-0000Wa-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWiE-0000WU-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWiE-000105-8C; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <569D4A94.8000507@redhat.com> (message from Florian Weimer on Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:27:00 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198354 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I have written to the Glibc maintainers to ask them to discuss this with John, but I think that a proposal for such a big incompatibility calls for a very broad discussion before any decisions are made. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.