[OE-core] [PATCH] Revert "musl: Add TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY from glibc"

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:06 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 07:58:19AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >...
> > Secondly, musl and glibc are under different licenses and importing
> > code from one to other could taint it.
> >...
>
> How many LOC are considered the legal limit in OE for that?
>

Just make it easy where it can. OE does not guarantee any of that.

> Many of the musl support patches (e.g. [1]) contain more LOC from glibc
> headers,[2] so if these are considered a problem there might be more
> legal review ahead.
>

Yes I am aware.

> cu
> Adrian
>
> [1] meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam/0001-Add-support-for-defining-missing-funcitonality.patch
> [2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blame;f=string/string.h;hb=0a54e4010fe0085cd36deaff9442a7e88de3270d#l131
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