From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 28 18:32:23 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 977F315390 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 25509 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2000 02:32:01 -0000 Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 29 Jan 2000 02:32:01 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:31:57 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Bill Fumerola , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc In-Reply-To: <200001282242.RAA26199@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > I thought I read somewhere that str*() functions were reserved, so wouldn't > > we be replacing non-standard function names with standard-breaking functions? > > No. We would be replacing namespace-polluting names for non-standard > functions with non-namespace-polluting names for non-standard > functions. > > I agree that `strflags' in an unfortunate choice of name -- > particularly for a function which is prototyped in a commonly-included > header file. Do you mean the current name, `setflags'? `strflags' isn't too bad except it misdescribes what the function actually does. I now think the changes should be backed out. As well as namespace pollution, the interfaces are not good enough for a library (there should be no new interfaces that return results in a static buffer), they create library versioning problems too close to a release. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message