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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:44:09 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: the need for safe dynamic string libraries (was Re: svn commit: r200157 - head/bin/date)
Message-ID:  <20091207124409.GI64905@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <42578.1260189623@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20091207122256.GC64431@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <42578.1260189623@critter.freebsd.dk>

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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> It can be argued that we should just dump everything in libc, but
> first, that would impair portability from FreeBSD, and second, it
> would be just plain sloppy...

And would more likely cause namespace issues. Functions like login(3)
and logout(3) really fill up the namespace.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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