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Re: Patch committed: Use GNU/Linux in comment
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@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.
Interesting reason ;) But maybe there is no <foobar>/Linux with <foobar>!=GNU
so it doesn't matter. Otherwise it would be technically incorrect and we should
change it to "Linux, not only GNU/Linux" ;)
Richard.
> Ian
>