From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 22 19:46:12 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from assaris.sics.se (dhcp114.iss.kth.se [130.237.7.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6143037B405; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from assar@assaris.sics.se) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA33483; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:46:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from assar) To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil ecalloc.c emalloc.3 emalloc.c erealloc.c estrdup.c Makefile libutil.h References: <200107230137.f6N1bfg13122@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> From: Assar Westerlund Date: 23 Jul 2001 04:46:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: Garance A Drosihn's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:27:10 -0400" Message-ID: <5litgk9xc1.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Garance A Drosihn writes: > I pick up freebsd's code for lpr and recompile it on a number of > other platforms. In that context I do find that the addition of > all these "little routines" as "standard system routines" gets a > little frustrating when porting things. So let's build a portable library of that stuff that can be used when porting code. See also lukemftp or portabel openssh. > If we were going to add these, then perhaps it should be by adding > a 'x' at the end of the name, instead of an 'e' at the start. Since neither of these prefixes is reserved in any way I think we should go for the clearer of the two, which I think is `e'. > The message that you posted to -audit just said "Any comments?" > along with the patch. I assumed that meant that the IDEA of adding > these routines had been discussed somewhere else, and that you were > just looking for someone to AUDIT the specific code you had written > to do it. Sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to be complete and include the patches when discussing this. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message