Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:21:56 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdio.h src/lib/libc/stdio clrerr.c feof.c ferror.c fileno.c getc.c getchar.c local.h putc.c putchar.c xprintf.c Message-ID: <200805051521.56926.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805051501440.6406@sea.ntplx.net> References: <200805051603.m45G3rrN089219@repoman.freebsd.org> <200805051459.29200.jhb@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805051501440.6406@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Monday 05 May 2008 03:02:45 pm Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Monday 05 May 2008 02:40:03 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> I'm _not_ objecting, just interested in why. > >> > >> Any references to discussions on this? Are we now safe for > >> future compat or something? > > > > Having FILE be opaque broke just about every 'configure' script on the > > planet. :( > > Can you just expose the public parts of it and leave the > rest as opaque placeholders or something, then map to a > real FILE in libc? Possibly, though we'd have to expose most of it so it is debatable if that would actually be worth the effort. -- John Baldwin
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