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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