"Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > >> This patch changes "Linux" to "GNU/Linux" in a comment. Bootstrapped >> and ran libiberty testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to >> mainline as libiberty maintainer. > > prctl is a Linux-kernel-specific syscall. The comment is describing what > that syscall does in terms of Linux /proc datastructures. Are you using > GNU/ because it also refers to userspace programs rather than purely to > the kernel, even though "top" and "ps" are not GNU programs?
I'm using it because RMS commented that there were uses of "linux" in libiberty which should be "GNU/Linux," and it seemed easier to change the only one I could see. Ian
