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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:16:15 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stpcpy() 
Message-ID:  <6166.941228175@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:13:17 CDT." <19991029151317.E535@holly.calldei.com> 

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In message <19991029151317.E535@holly.calldei.com>, Chris Costello writes:

>   The bigger issue of Linux compatibility is essentially what
>this is leading into.  Currently the biggest users of stpcpy are
>Linux applications.  Frankly it's hard enough at this point to
>deal with problems with the GNU getopt (awfully difficult to port
>programs using GNU getopt without replicating the getopt() code
>from glibc).  At the same time, there are dozens of other Linux
>compatibility issues.  Putting all these new foreign library
>calls into libc is not the solution unless we're interested in a
>larger library.  The argument "hardware is cheap" is not valid.

Sounds to me like it's time to add these things to liblinuxcompat.a ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!




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