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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:41:11 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r200157 - head/bin/date
Message-ID:  <86iqcjt93c.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20091207085927.GC57764@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> (Luigi Rizzo's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:59:27 %2B0100")
References:  <200912052009.nB5K9okL098577@svn.freebsd.org> <ygek4wzpdv3.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20091207055752.GD64905@hoeg.nl> <20091207085927.GC57764@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes:
> Also, things like lsbuf are really useful in general, so having
> that widely available would be a good incentive for people to
> use it instead of rolling their own 'dynamic string manipulation'
> code again and again

Userland libsbuf is an abomination.  I wish I had protested more
strenuously when the CAM people insisted on using the same code in
userland as in the kernel; we actually lost functionality in the kernel
version as a result.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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