Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:06:25 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>. Message-ID: <4171B781.7010106@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p06110436bd975fb79f55@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20041016174419.GA96297@dragon.nuxi.com> <p06110436bd975fb79f55@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. > We are indeed past the point for doing this for 5.3 and also RELENG_5. Scott
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