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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:26:26 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libregex library
Message-ID:  <20041120012626.GG20068@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <16796.54189.894371.247346@piglet.timing.com>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Ben Mesander wrote:
> Tim Robbins writes:
>  > What do you think src/lib/libc/regex is?
> 
> Now that's a nice question.
> So why are there two regex libs?

They have differing API's and GNU utilities consume the GNU API not the
Henry Spencer standard one.  So we have to have both.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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