Re: [Condor-devel] stopping the GLIBC madness

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> A simple autoconf check to see if rlim_t is defined doesn't work in this
> case since rlim_t is in fact defined with or without _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64,
> but they are in actuality different widths. Most solutions to this
> problem are ugly and probably time intensive to test.
>
> This is why sometimes I don't do seemingly obvious incremental changes--I
> discover crap like the above and it becomes a rathole. In the other
> case you brought up, I think that there is a special autoconf rule which
> already figures out if a signal handler takes a type or not and I think
> I just have to use it. Until I actually do the change, however, I'm not
> sure if it won't propogate beyond that.

So this is kind of scary: the knowledge for the "why" of this code is 
only in your head. It seems like a well-placed comment would be in 
order here, otherwise someone else might spend laborious hours 
re-figuring it out.

-alain