Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:32:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen check_utility_compat.c confstr.c fmtmsg.c getgrent.c getpwent.c src/lib/libc/include namespace.h un-namespace.h src/lib/libc/locale setlocale.c src/lib/libc/net getaddrinfo.c gethostbydns.c getnameinfo.c hesiod.c ... Message-ID: <200304301632.h3UGWl8L050922@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030430144149.GA7786@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200304292113.h3TLDoGF072965@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzp65oxrn3e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030430002014.GA1190@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpptn4rfww.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030430004907.GA32349@mero.morphisms.net> <20030430031856.GA20258@madman.celabo.org> <20030430144149.GA7786@dragon.nuxi.com>
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<<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:41:49 -0700, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> said: > to protect users. I strongly don't want to see a lot of libc function > hiding and alternate symbols. A great deal of it is is REQUIRED for standards compliance. If the implementation of a Standard C (or POSIX) function depends on a non-Standard library routine, the name by which that routine is called MUST NOT be in the user's namespace. In this case, since str* is in the implementation namespace, qpopper is clearly in the wrong. -GAWollman
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