[gpm] Question about commit e8ea3d3...

Nico Schottelius nico-gpm@schottelius.org
Mon Apr 21 09:03:05 CEST 2008


Mike Frysinger [Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:04:59PM -0400]:
> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Added become_daemon() from gpm2 to gpm1.
> >
> > This is a bit ugly, as it implies some relative symlinks, but it works
> > for the translation to gpm2.
> 
> so gpm as a maintenance branch will stay linux-only, but gpm2 will be 
> targetting POSIX ?  sounds fine to me, just want to make sure i understand 
> things :

Mostly correct, although I'll prefer patches that are posix compliant in
all trees, so I can reuse patches for 1.20.x for 1.99.x.

I know that there will be os-dependent code in gpm2, too, but this
should only be in os-specific drivers (mouse/console).

Nico


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