Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: alk@Think.COM, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sys_errlist Message-ID: <199604090816.KAA08954@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604090216.LAA12358@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 9, 96 11:46:14 am
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As Michael Smith wrote: > You're a brave man. Not too bright, but brave 8) > > Why would you want a publically visible symbol not to have a prototype? Hmm? > Next you'll be telling us that we should ditch the 'errno' prototype as > well, and go back even further. This reminds me... I was interested in writing a new login(1) for a stone-aged ESIX SVR3.2 yesterday. Don't ask me how many external function and variable declarations i had to put up into my source manually. =:-) The bottom line is, these old Unices were rather easy to handle. :) A full login(1) replacement took about 3 hours, resulting in a 200-line C file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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