From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 14:23:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05549 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05528 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:22:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26605; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:22:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd026576; Fri May 29 14:22:48 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15162; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:22:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805292122.OAA15162@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:22:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, rnordier@nordier.com, eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805282024.PAA01692@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at May 28, 98 03:24:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not discussing what should be, I'm discussing what is. We have a > good percentage of software from the Linux camps, and many of their > software authors wouldn't know a non-portable construct if it walked > up and introduced itself in assembly code. If the plan is to "make it work anyway", how do you propose the common Linux programming error where they fail to zero sockarr_in contents before partially filling in values and using them? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message