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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:26:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: gnulib's errno module was imported
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To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
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> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:30:10 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to back out dirfd, and then add to GDB whatever glue
> > (borrowed from gnulib) that's needed to support LSB 3.0?  IOW, can we
> > support LSB 3.0 in our own code, either inspired or stolen from
> > gnulib?
> 
> We can do that but I suspect the value of doing that.  How important is
> it to keep GDB head compatible with LSB 3.0 which was released on 2005?

I don't know.  I assumed that supporting LSB 3.0 was important; if
not, then just backing out dirfd, as you suggested, is TRT.