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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:36:43 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jasone@canonware.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: buildworld breakage due to cross-tools/libc/mktemp.
Message-ID:  <20000119013643.A36827@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000113063740.1076A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:53:25AM -0500
References:  <20000112211625.A21988@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000113063740.1076A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:53:25AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I don't see why a plain function like mkstemp() should be written so
> > specially.  Couldn't all the hiding/changing done for threads be done
> > w/in open() itself?  Neither HP-UX 10.30 (which has kernel threads), nor
> > Solaris 7 needs such open() hackery in mkstemp().
> 
> Given where we want to go with pthreads, and the proposed architecture,
> I'm not sure why we need to have open -> _libc_open -> __open (or
> whatever it is).  Why isn't using _open internally in libc sufficient?
> open is a weak symbol for _open, and libpthread can override the open
> (weak symbol).


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