From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 15 1: 9: 5 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B2C37B401; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:09:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBF943E6E; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAF98ew20107; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:08:40 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:08:40 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , , , , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c In-Reply-To: <200211142257.gAEMvdxX071776@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20021115100434.O2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: MD> Why not create a mini-libc? No language-aware character conversions, MD> no efficient string or memory functions, no floating point. Just a basic MD> implementation of the core functionality required for stdio, malloc, MD> *printf(), string functions, and system calls (which will simply be MD> borrowed from libc), sufficient for simple binaries. It could be made MD> compatible with our standard includes (structural bloat != code bloat, MD> so who cares). The problem with this is that users needing the language support will be faced with having part of the base system utilities (those in /usr/bin) beeing language-aware and part (those in /bin) not. They will need to rebuild the system after they have installed it (and after twiddling with the configuration). This will be rather confusing. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message