From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 11:52: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131FD37B407 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701AD43F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:52:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C87666E60; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 04484161C; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:52:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:52:03 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Pavel Cahyna Cc: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc Message-ID: <20030123195203.GG60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030123174127.GA15640@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NQTVMVnDVuULnIzU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123174127.GA15640@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NQTVMVnDVuULnIzU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote: > And, if there are things like funopen(), why do Gnome hackers invent > their own APIs like gnome-vfs? Does somebody actually use funopen()? > Does it really work? They presumably did it because they thought it would be a good idea. Perhaps they wanted to hide implementation differences between different OSes. Either way, the low-level functions in FreeBSD work just fine. Kris --NQTVMVnDVuULnIzU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MEfjWry0BWjoQKURAhTGAJ4kJzdCsbhvSBuv+DBCsgOXUgnhqQCg1QYl OhCqT1uQh9iiPC5xA/lXMFA= =xIFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NQTVMVnDVuULnIzU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message