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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:23:16 +0300
From:      "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-include@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include malloc.h Makefile
Message-ID:  <KDakUok4k2@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <9411152304.AA07442@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman at Tue, 15 Nov 1994 18:04:29 -0500
References:  <199411151653.JAA09195@bsd.coe.montana.edu> <kCeoFokKx3@astral.msk.su> <9411152304.AA07442@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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In message <9411152304.AA07442@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett
    Wollman writes:

><<On Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:23:36 +0300, "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> 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.

1) I don't plan _emulate_ SysV with this change, only save porters
work time.
2) We already _emulate_ SysV (IBCS2 stuff), so FreeBSD almost == 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...)

That I mean when say that this infection is de-facto standard. All
commecrial vendors and even MSDOS C Compilers have this file.
We can have different emotions about this file, but we can't
negate its existance. I was agree with you until I done several
ports myself and really tired edit every C file to undef this file.
If you try to port few Linux things yourself, you understand me :-)
-- 
Andrew A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
FidoNet: -- temp down -- : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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