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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:01:42 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Robert E. Cousins" <rec@dotrocket.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about library routines
Message-ID:  <15077.63430.826048.999312@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <10745025@toto.iv>

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Robert E. Cousins <rec@dotrocket.com> types:
> Hello:
>     I have written several C routines which I think might be useful to
> add
> to the FreeBSD distribution. Would I be better off contributing them
> to the Free Software Foundation for inclusion in their libc
> implementation?

FreeBSD doesn't use the GNU libc, so contributing them to the FSF
won't get them into FreeBSD.

>     The routines break into two categories:
> 
> 1.) Routines which manipulate struct iovec (such as used in readv and
> writev). They copy, compare and manipulate blocks of memory tied
> together through iovec structures.

You might try asking on -hackers about these.

> 2.) A circular queue set. These routines allow the creation,
> initialization
> and manipulation of circular queues. I haven't implemented thread
> locking
> but it would be trivial to add.

How do these compare to the macros in sys/queue.h?

	<mike
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