Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:44:25 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen check_utility_compat.c confstr.c un-namespace.hgethostbydns.c getnameinfo.c hesiod.c ... Message-ID: <20030430164425.GC26508@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <200304301638.h3UGcKMg050997@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <xzpptn4rfww.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030430004907.GA32349@mero.morphisms.net> <20030430031856.GA20258@madman.celabo.org> <20030430144149.GA7786@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10304300024280.1846-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <20030430043303.GA46365@mero.morphisms.net> <20030430062647.GA82023@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030430143121.GK39658@survey.codeburst.net> <20030430152708.GA26216@madman.celabo.org> <200304301638.h3UGcKMg050997@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:38:20PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:27:08 -0500, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > We have no business exporting symbols from libc that are not described > > by any standard. > > The standard says that we have a right to define any global symbol we > want that begins with the letters `str'. IMHO, that doesn't make hiding it/not hiding it a good idea. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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