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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:48:48 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Planning on deprecating libc_r for 6.0 
Message-ID:  <19352.1113403728@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:43:56 MDT." <425D302C.1060006@samsco.org> 

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In message <425D302C.1060006@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>> The user can disable it by adding a line in libmap.conf so let us
> not invent more handles to tweak but point the user at the right
>> one.
>> 
>
>Well, the worry is that there are legacy apps out there that rely on
>features/bugs only found in libc_r, therefore the user can't just
>switch.

They'll have two years to find out if they start looking now.

The more weird handles we add for people to tweak the worse FreeBSD
becomes as a result.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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