Re: [XFree86 3.3.6] fix for race conditions in xterm logfile

From: Joel Klecker (jkat_private)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 16:52:09 PST

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At 18:39 -0500 2000-03-01, Branden Robinson wrote:
>        call with an fclose and a redirection of the stderr stream.  While
>        I was at it I added a #include for the header file that the getpt()
>        function is protyped in to try and silence a compiler warning.  I
>        then found out that glibc doesn't actually have a prototype for it
>        in their header files (contrary to their documentation).

Yes it does, getpt() is a GNU extension, therefore you have to define the
_GNU_SOURCE macro in order to get the prototype.
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