Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:20:31 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c Message-ID: <20070501112031.GA6442@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070501105937.GC823@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070430180043.GK13868@elvis.mu.org> <20070430181824.GA83415@nagual.pp.ru> <20070430225717.GA7008@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20070501000242.GA19510@nagual.pp.ru> <20070501002817.GA887@nagual.pp.ru> <463690FE.9000209@inse.ru> <20070501010709.GA1304@nagual.pp.ru> <20070501013957.GX13868@elvis.mu.org> <20070501064828.GA3836@nagual.pp.ru> <20070501105937.GC823@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:59:37PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Note that just building the ports with these changes will not demonstrate > much. This change alters the functionality of putenv() rather than the > API/ABI so testing the change requires exercising the ports. This is > a much more difficult task. I agree, only running ports does. As I already answered elsewhere, that=20 way we'll have at least first real stats how it affects building system=20 instead of that endless BSD vs. POSIX speculation (I already tired of)=20 without any real ground of things affected. > >Apples and oranges. select is BSD own function unlike putenv which is no= t=20 > >BSD own and initially adopted without too much care. >=20 > Then someone needs to fix the "HISTORY" section of getenv(3). I've > looked thru the TUHS and CSRG files and it didn't exist in V7 or any > of the early BSDs. I'm not sure when it really did appear. getenv(3) > in 4.3reno doesn't claim compliance to any standard for putenv(). And I said so. We can't call POLA what is not belongs to us and poorly=20 implemented in our base later just because it stays in that form for a=20 long time. Moreover, having it in poorly implemented form will result that= =20 our soft will be unportable, so we lost possibility to attract potential=20 users. --=20 http://ache.pp.ru/ --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGNyJ/Vg5YK5ZEdN0RAiesAJ99rTt/pK4LeejWRj8gfC8mnGsFvQCePWNj +QFPGsjs/XRmXNkpXH7kn0g= =+A6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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