From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 30 18:12:54 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA62437B401; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB4643E6A; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g911Cqq2001865; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g911CqsO001858; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Eric Melville , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile getopt.h src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc getopt_long.3 getopt_long.c Message-ID: <20021001011252.GB82611@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Eric Melville , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200209290414.g8T4EbCp043463@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020929044029.GA25349@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020929044137.GB14475@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020929010354.B622@espresso.q9media.com> <20020929051536.GA33717@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020929185747.GA85357@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:49:52PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Could you live with this policy: > > Tools in the base system may only use getopt_long to provide > functionality offered in previously released versions of the > base system. > > I think that as long as we constrain ourselves to using this for > backward compatibility, we should be okay. I could live with it if the committer had actually made everything in the base tree that uses getopt_long, actually use the new version in libc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message