Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:26:35 -0500 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen check_utility_compat.c confstr.c fmtmsg.c getgrent.c getpwent.c src/lib/libc/include namespace.h un-namespace.h src/lib/libc/locale setlocale.c src/lib/libc/net getaddrinfo.c gethostbydns.c getnameinfo.c hesiod.c ... Message-ID: <20030429192635.A20268@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpptn4rfww.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:24:15AM %2B0200 References: <200304292113.h3TLDoGF072965@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzp65oxrn3e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030430002014.GA1190@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpptn4rfww.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [ Date: 2003-04-29 ] [ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen check_utility_compat.c confstr.c fmtmsg.c getgrent.c getpwent.c src/lib/libc/include namespace.h un-namespace.h src/lib/libc/locale setlocale.c src/lib/li > "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> writes: > > No we shouldn't. If I understand you correctly, it prevents me from > > linking in my own malloc()/free() and having the entire system use it. > > Being able to replace the use of a libc function for *all* running of a > > program is a very useful thing. > > Except when you replace it with a broken implementation, like qpopper > does with strlcpy()... Even that can be useful, in some ways. -- juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; aim: bsdflata; efnet: juli;
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