Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 21:36:24 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, gena@netvision.net.il Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, root@io.cts.com Subject: Re: Error building xvnews, cuserid? Message-ID: <199502051036.VAA15275@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Damn , i forgot about this libcompat thing... >When i ported xvnews i just wrote this function by myself. >It took me exactly the same time as to above command to finish :-) ( almost ) >I did 'man cuserid' and got nothing , so i was sure that cuserid does not >exists in FreeBSD. cuserid() should probably still have a man page and be declared in <unistd.h> and/or <stdio.h>. It was in a draft POSIX standard but was dropped from the final standard because there were several incompatible versions of it in use and it is easy to implement using other standard functions. >Seriously , what this libcompat is doing, and do we have some sort of >manpage for it? It has compatibility cruft :-). We have a manpage for regexp(3) but it doesn't say that regexp is in libcompat. Bruce
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