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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:38:20PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:27:08 -0500, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said:
> 
> > We have no business exporting symbols from libc that are not described
> > by any standard.
> 
> The standard says that we have a right to define any global symbol we
> want that begins with the letters `str'.

IMHO, that doesn't make hiding it/not hiding it a good idea.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se