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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:39:54 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Request For Review: libc/libc_r changes to allow -lc_r 
Message-ID:  <200101220139.f0M1dtc71205@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>  of "Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:54:48 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010121175030.24988A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> 

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Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:
> > > If it's OK for folks to see and use __foo in libc as opposed
> > > to _foo, I can make that change.
> > 
> > It's much too dangerous, I believe, to let libc escape out into the 
> > application's namespace much.
> 
> Remember that this is already possible.  Our current syscalls are
> _foo with foo being a weak definition to _foo.  We currently use
> foo all over libc and noone seems to object until now.

That's true.  But if you're willing to change it, I think it's worth doing.

-- 
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'




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