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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:32:01 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen stringlist.c
Message-ID:  <199706291102.UAA19302@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706291050.UAA31042@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 29, 97 08:50:38 pm"

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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying:
> >  Modified files:
> >    lib/libc/gen         stringlist.c 
> >  Log:
> >  _err() -> err().
> 
> Error!  Library functions should not call functions in the user namespace.
> stringlist.c depended on NetBSD's implementantion of `_err' as the core
> function with the library `err' a weak alias for `err'.

Eep.

> `err' was not misused by the library before, but ISTR that other [v]err*
> or [v]warn* functions are misused.

Should we then adopt the NetBSD convention and make the err family
safely accessible to other library functions?

> Bruce

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