From owner-cvs-include Tue Nov 15 15:05:04 1994 Return-Path: cvs-include-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id PAA13882 for cvs-include-outgoing; Tue, 15 Nov 1994 15:05:04 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA13873; Tue, 15 Nov 1994 15:04:49 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA07442; Tue, 15 Nov 1994 18:04:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 18:04:29 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9411152304.AA07442@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-include@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include malloc.h Makefile In-Reply-To: References: <199411151653.JAA09195@bsd.coe.montana.edu> Sender: cvs-include-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Moreover, all commercial vendors include it. SYSV is de-facto standard > and we can't teach all world to do it another way. Repeat after me. FreeBSD != SysV. FreeBSD != SysV. It is not even a remote goal of FreeBSD to emulate SysV brain-damage. FreeBSD != SysV. (Now, those one or two things that SysV actually got right, those might be worth emulating. This isn't one of them. Unfortunately, this particular bit of brain-damage is contagious, as it infected all the MS-DOG C compilers quite early on...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant