Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 02:08:00 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ache@nagual.ru, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cuserid(3): compat->c resurrection Message-ID: <199703021508.CAA23932@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Since cuserid() is POSIX 1003.1 function, not 4.4 own function, I plan to >move it from libcompat to libc. Applications which tries to be No. It hasn't been a POSIX function since 1990. It was in the 1988 version. >machine-independent and follows POSIX often use it, we already have some >ports examples. Adding -lcompat in each such case only produces 7 years should have been long enough for people to stop using it :-). The next step should be to remove it from libcompat. >internals in this case, so I don't see a reason for it to be obsoleted. It is more convenient. IIRC, POSIX dropped it because it is not portable - it has different semantics on different systems. Bruce
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