From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 0:30:13 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 753F237B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E99543E4A; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9O7U2W1032866; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:30:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id g9O7U1Gl032865; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:30:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9O7SMks053728; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:28:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200210240728.g9O7SMks053728@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Bruce Evans Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdlib.h src/lib/libc/gen getbsize.3 getbsize.c References: <20021024132124.O25492-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20021024132124.O25492-100000@gamplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:42:05 +1000." Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:28:22 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > Of course not. We need to back out this change. > > Another reason to back it out is that it is just wrong. The header length > is not a size but a field width that needs to be passed to printf via %*. "That is sometimes passed to %*". The rest of the time its not used or is a happier as a size_t. > > I don't believe this is a crisis. Make world has fixed worse problems. > > There may be many more in ports and third party software. This is a BSD4.4-specific interface. A statistical sampling given by grepping my /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 gives no hits. I have 142 ports installed, including a few of the system variety most likely to need this interface or its ilk. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message