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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c
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    The only problem with libstand is that it is not really designed
    to link against normal programs.  There are a lot of shims in there
    to simulate system calls, like lseek() and sbrk().

    But I don't see why we couldn't create a mini-c library that is based
    on the portable pieces of libc and libstand, just like libstand takes
    advantage of the portable pieces of libc.  So, for example, we
    could take advantage of libstand's kprintf() core and getopt(),
    and libc's string functions, and only introduce a poor-man's stdio
    (or maybe even use libc's stdio if it isn't too big).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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