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Any Linux distro built against musl out there?
Hi all. I'm the original author and maintainer of musl, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the project. Glad to see so much interest!
Hi all. I'm the original author and maintainer of musl, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the project. Glad to see so much interest!
Hi all. I'm the original author and maintainer of musl, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the project. Glad to see so much interest!
Hi all. I'm the original author and maintainer of musl, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the project. Glad to see so much interest!
Is there any overview of differences/missing pieces in respect to glibc ? (I'd expect most of them are GNU extensions or or legacy, e.g. at a glance, no SunRPC, fts.h, obstack.h, fstab.h). And how is C11 library support ?
In regards to fts.h, the version in glibc is not even usable because it only works in 32-bit off_t mode, and stat() randomly fails in this mode due to modern inode numbers being 64-bit. See the recent thread on the glibc mailing list: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00408.html and the bug tracker issue linked.
At this point both musl and glibc only cover a very small portion of C11 additions. glibc has a GSoC project proposal (with 3+ students interested in it) to add C11 threads, which is one of the big missing areas. We've been holding off on doing so in musl in an interest of making sure we do it in a way that's ABI-compatible with glibc, so we'll probably add C11 threads in the near future too.