From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 14 16:15:11 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550F637B401; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8867943E6E; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA29460; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAF03ZOS032021; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:03:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@arch20m.dellroad.org) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAF03ZnK032020; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:03:35 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200211150003.gAF03ZnK032020@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c In-Reply-To: <200211142257.gAEMvdxX071776@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Dillon Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:03:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , sobomax@FreeBSD.org, silby@silby.com, njl@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > Why not create a mini-libc? No language-aware character conversions, > no efficient string or memory functions, no floating point. Just a basic > implementation of the core functionality required for stdio, malloc, > *printf(), string functions, and system calls (which will simply be > borrowed from libc), sufficient for simple binaries. It could be made > compatible with our standard includes (structural bloat != code bloat, > so who cares). I like that idea.. would this be different from libstand(3) or could they be merged together? -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message