Re: Add a new exec_exec_file_name RPC

[Samuel Thibault]

I read that part a bit too fast

Samuel Thibault, on mar. 09 janv. 2018 13:00:44 +0100, wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès, on mar. 09 janv. 2018 12:57:40 +0100, wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:
> > 
> > > For non-Debian distributions, you may want
> > > to pick up the hurd exec_filename_ patches from
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-hurd/hurd.git/tree/debian/patches
> > > and the local-exec_filename.diff patch from
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/tree/debian/patches/hurd-i386
> > > at least for some time to get backward compatibility with the previous
> > > experimental RPCs.
> > 
> > Are you planning to commit them upstream?  That’d be nice.
> 
> The backward compatibility is not.

So you were indeed asking for the backward compatibility changes. It
doesn't make much sense to commit them there since they have never been
there.

Note that they are only required for the upgrade path between hurd and
libc of an existing system, then they are useless since the RPCs in
question are only used between hurd and libc. For e.g. Guix you will
never have the issue so you don't even need them.

Samuel