Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:58:07 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>. Message-ID: <p06110436bd975fb79f55@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20041016174419.GA96297@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041016174419.GA96297@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 10:44 AM -0700 10/16/04, David O'Brien wrote: >I'd like to restore the traditional BSD behavior that <strings.h> >includes the content of <string.h> in addition to the BSD bcmp, >et. al. We changed our <strings.h> between 4.x and 5.x and now >that we're at 5-STABLE I'm finding software that built fine on >4.x has an issue on 5.x. I think it is definitely too late to do this for 5.3-RELEASE, because we have no idea what software might be compiling fine right now, but may break due to namespace conflicts if <strings.h> starts pulling in <string.h>. It looks like 5.x has gone 2 and a half years with <strings.h> not including <string.h>, and if we also ship 5.3-release in that state then I suspect there isn't much point in switching back after 5.3-release. I have no particular objection to the *idea*, but I think we are past the point were we could make such a change. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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