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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
	"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:08:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181115170807.GB20617@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1811151628490.27351@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:29:43PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > That's great.  But is it or is it not true (either de jure or de
> > facto) that "a single active glibc developer" can block a system call
> > from being supported by glibc by objecting?  And if not, under what is
> > the process by resolving a conflict?
> 
> We use a consensus-building process as described at 
> <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus>.

So can a single glibc developer can block Consensus?

I've chaired IETF working groups, where the standard was "Rough
Consensus and Running Code".  Strict Consensus very easily ends up
leading to the Librem Veto which did not serve the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth well in the 17th-18th centuries....

							- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-15 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-10 18:52 Official Linux system wrapper library? Daniel Colascione
2018-11-10 19:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-10 19:06   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-10 19:33     ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-10 19:20 ` Greg KH
2018-11-10 19:58   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-12  2:03     ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-12  2:24   ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-12  2:36     ` Greg KH
2018-11-12 16:08       ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-12 20:03         ` Greg KH
2018-12-09  4:38         ` Randy Dunlap
2018-12-10 16:27           ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-12-10 17:39             ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-12-10 23:32               ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-12  5:46     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-11  6:55 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-11-11  8:17   ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11  8:25     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-11 10:40       ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:40         ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:30     ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:30       ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:02       ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11 12:07         ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 12:07           ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:53     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-11-11 11:02       ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:02         ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 16:43         ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-13 15:15           ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-11 11:11       ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11 11:46         ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:46           ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 12:09           ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-12 12:25             ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 12:25               ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 17:36             ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 17:53               ` Greg KH
2018-11-12 18:09                 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 18:14                   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-12 16:59           ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 12:03           ` Adam Borowski
2018-11-14 12:10             ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 12:10               ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-16 21:24         ` Alan Cox
2018-11-11 11:09   ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:09     ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 14:22     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12  1:44       ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-12  8:11       ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12  8:11         ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 13:19         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 17:24           ` Zack Weinberg
2018-11-12 18:28             ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 19:11               ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 19:11                 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 19:26                 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 22:51                   ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 23:10                     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 23:26                       ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 22:34                 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-13 19:39           ` Dave Martin
2018-11-13 20:58             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-14 10:54               ` Dave Martin
2018-11-14 11:40                 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 11:40                   ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-15 10:33                   ` Dave Martin
2018-11-14 11:58             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-14 14:46               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-14 15:07                 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 15:07                   ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 17:40                 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:13                   ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-14 14:58               ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-14 17:15                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-14 18:30                   ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:30                     ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 15:40               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-14 18:15                 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:35                   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-14 18:47                     ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15  5:30                       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-15 16:29                         ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15 17:08                           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-11-15 17:14                             ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15 21:00                             ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-15 20:34                       ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-23 13:34           ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-23 13:34             ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-23 14:11             ` David Newall
2018-11-23 15:23               ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-24  3:41                 ` David Newall
2018-11-28 13:18               ` David Laight
2018-11-23 20:15             ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-23 23:19               ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-11-12 12:45       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-12 14:35         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-12 14:40           ` Daniel Colascione

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