standards/187378: stdlib.h doesn't define W* macros (e.g. WEXITSTATUS)

[Peter Pentchev]

The following reply was made to PR standards/187378; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/187378: stdlib.h doesn't define W* macros (e.g.
 WEXITSTATUS)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:24:43 +0200

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 On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:18:34PM +0000, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
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 > >Number:         187378
 > >Category:       standards
 > >Synopsis:       stdlib.h doesn't define W* macros (e.g. WEXITSTATUS)
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT amd64
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD freefall.freebsd.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0=
  r262685: Sun Mar 2 11:35:38 UTC 2014 peter at freefall.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/u=
 sr/src/sys/FREEFALL amd64
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 > >Description:
 > As per this document:
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 > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdlib.h.html
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 > stdlib.h should define W* macros like WEXITSTATUS etc. However, it doesn'=
 t.
 
 FWIW, this is even documented in FreeBSD's stdlib.h :)
 
 /* XXX XSI requires pollution from <sys/wait.h> here.  We'd rather not. */
 
 Yes, I know this doesn't help you much; I'm just trying to point out
 that, well, this is not an accidental omission, but a deliberate design
 decision.  For the reasons for it you'll have to ask the people who did
 it - this particular text seems to have been added by Garrett Wollman
 back in 2002, but I think that he was just documenting the status quo
 rather than making a decision right there and then.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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