Re: [musl] Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:46 PM Rich Felker wrote: > ... > > > There is one kinda legitimate purpose for detecting specifically musl: > > > > It is not your role to tell us which code we write is "legitimate" and > > which code is not. I am a grown-up programmer. > > I'm not trying to tell you you

Re: [musl] Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-22 Thread Bruno Haible
[Dropping config-patches from CC.] Hi Rich, > I'm not trying to tell you you're not a grown-up programmer. I'm > trying to tell you that the answer to the question you're asking ("is > this musl?") is not meaningful Good. Then maybe the term "legitimate" was too strong... > It's true that imple

Re: [musl] Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-22 Thread Rich Felker
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 09:21:48PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Rich, > > POSIX — like many other standard — allows different implementations to > behave differently. For example, iconv_open() and setlocale() behave > differently in different POSIX-compliant libc implementations. This is > OK. The