Purchasing a uClibc patch?

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Feb 8 19:06:42 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:40:07AM +0000, bruce bushby wrote:
> Hi Rich
> 
> Thanks for input!! I support the LGPL 100%
> 
> The issue of donating the "purchased patches" stemmed from wanting to give
> back to the project but not knowing if the project would consider adding
> "posix_spawn".
> 
> If the maintainers of uClibc have decided not to implement
> "posix_spawn".....then where would I store the patch so that others can use
> it? ....Does uClibc have a "alternate patch" area?
> 
> I would write and submit the patch myself but unfortunately I'm not a very
> good programmer :(

I seriously doubt anyone had decided not to implement posix_spawn,
especially since it's an extremely useful interface for NOMMU systems.
It's probably just that nobody's gotten around to doing it.

Rich


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