From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 16:26:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F7B37B401; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7E43F85; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <20030505232655052006p8bpe>; Mon, 5 May 2003 23:26:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA30012; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Andrey A. Chernov" In-Reply-To: <20030505231837.GA44533@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: `Hiding' libc symbols X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 23:26:57 -0000 On Tue, 6 May 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 18:11:35 -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > applications that (IMHO most legitimately, some not) define symbols > > that are technically in some standard's space, such as `snprintf', > > `strlcpy', `accept', `close', ... ? ``Fix'' them all? Throw them > > away? > > Fix them all. It is as easy as putting > #define printf myprintf > somewhere into headers or even into CC flags. When this task is spreaded > among corresponding ports maintainers, the number for each of them will be > not too big. > > > What about applications that are already compiled? > > Leave them as is. I mean linker time error, not runtime. > > > I think such fascism would result in us behaving in a very un-UNIX > > fashion. If Linux had a clash they would fix the application software in a flash.. > > And I think just opposite. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >