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Subject: Re: Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>.
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:44 AM -0700 10/16/04, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to restore the traditional BSD behavior that <strings.h>
>> includes the content of <string.h> in addition to the BSD bcmp,
>> et. al.  We changed our <strings.h> between 4.x and 5.x and now
>> that we're at 5-STABLE I'm finding software that built fine on
>> 4.x has an issue on 5.x.
> 
> 
> I think it is definitely too late to do this for 5.3-RELEASE,
> because we have no idea what software might be compiling fine
> right now, but may break due to namespace conflicts if <strings.h>
> starts pulling in <string.h>.
> 
> It looks like 5.x has gone 2 and a half years with <strings.h> not
> including <string.h>, and if we also ship 5.3-release in that state
> then I suspect there isn't much point in switching back after
> 5.3-release.  I have no particular objection to the *idea*, but I
> think we are past the point were we could make such a change.
> 

We are indeed past the point for doing this for 5.3 and also RELENG_5.

Scott