Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:05:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: charnier@xp11.frmug.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: no prototype for zopen Message-ID: <199607292105.HAA14363@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I'm aware of only one program which uses the zopen(3) interface to >compress(1), and that's `savecore'. I don't think anyone would be That's one more than I was aware of yesterday :-). >hurt to simply remove the functionality in its entirety. Doesn't save >much space, though... It also probably saves less space in the output file than would gzipping the output. The only case where it helps is if the file system is too small to hold the initial output. >Furthermore, not being in any system libraries, it doesn't belong in >any header files. Perhaps a zopen.h in the sources to compress if we >should decide to keep it. (I would just as soon get rid of compress >entirely.) I think requiring a header for exported functions would be a good rule. We already have a similar rule for (often not even exported) path names. Bruce
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