Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:10 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: minoura@netbsd.org (MINOURA Makoto) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review [Re: /bin/ls patch round #2] Message-ID: <200103212119.QAA22140@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010321040241.C97FC3668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net> References: <20010319195438.A43266@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320002043.A46115@peorth.iteration.net> <20010320065321.E63933668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net> <200103201736.MAA09185@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010321040241.C97FC3668@203.141.142.186.user.am.il24.net>
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<<On 21 Mar 2001 13:02:41 +0900, minoura@netbsd.org (MINOURA Makoto) said: > Sorry I'm not sure but rune API is slightly different > between 4.4BSD and Plan9, isn't it? Nobody runs Plan 9, whereas hundreds of thousands of machines run *BSD. > Sources of the standard commands are often used as a living > textbook to other programmers. They should be as `good' as > possible, and in my opinion `good' includes `standard-complient'. You would have to exclude most of the programs in 4.4BSD by that definition. There is a reason why interfaces like err(3) and daemon(3) are included in the standard C library, and the style guide strongly recommends their usage. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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