Getting rid of portable branch (Was: [PATCH 3/6] Fall back on utimes if futimes is not available)

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Wed May 6 11:22:40 UTC 2015


Hi -

> I would like to get rid of the portable branch. [...]  

What is the argument against getting rid of the portable branch by
merging it into master?

> Nobody really should be using it unless they are using glibc <= 2.5,
> kernel <= 2.6.18 or gcc < 4.4. Hopefully by now those are really
> ancient memory. [...]

(e.g. RHEL5 is supported till 2020.)


- FChE


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