From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 11:13:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A1516A407 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD76243D58 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:13:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 14177 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2006 11:13:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (775067@[217.50.133.243]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Sep 2006 11:13:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:12:50 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060926131250.1e736adb@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200609260216.k8Q2Gtxk045006@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200609260216.k8Q2Gtxk045006@drugs.dv.isc.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2008-08-18.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_x=.B0vcaw/d.5vicx28iOw_"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Subject: Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:13:12 -0000 --Sig_x=.B0vcaw/d.5vicx28iOw_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark Andrews wrote: > get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use > is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. >=20 > Why are we adding compatability for deprecated functions? I was wondering the same thing, especially because it causes a lot of packages that where compiled on later FreeBSD 6.x version not to work on earlier FreeBSD 6.x versions. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_x=.B0vcaw/d.5vicx28iOw_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFGQtABYqIVf93VJ0RAvuuAJ93e343jcoWDBjiy1C5gzLNqdD/ywCfUQ/C t+fZ/ymkBqxXBqzFciAhA3E= =ls64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_x=.B0vcaw/d.5vicx28iOw_--