On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 10:54, Tomasz Torcz tomek@pipebreaker.pl wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:08:57PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:29:50PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no exception. In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls directly either.
But why?! It's not like rpm is massive on Windows Server... Isn't good support for Linux absolutely the most important thing?
Well, RPM is a package manager on AIX. IBM/Redhat may want to keep AIX alive ;-)
My understanding is that is not the only place it is used. A Linux only version would end being another fork.. I doubt it matters much as it did 10 or 20 years ago.. but it would still be a splitting of community resources versus a growing of community resources. Not all the world can be as free as systemd :).
Well, OK, but let's consider that Linux installations are probably something like 99.9%. IMO it's totally appropriate to implement an atomic path for linux, and implement a non-atomic fallback for the systems that need that. We're not talking about anything big here, rather a ~10 line function.
Zbyszek