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Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
- To: tb at becket dot net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Cc: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>,Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>,<open-source at csl dot sri dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:18:50 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
> Um, glibc is supposed to have the functions that are in BSD. Anyone
> who defines BSD_SOURCE should get the BSD functions, and when they add
> some, so should we, at least, under that feature test macro.
"BSD" you say. What does that mean? The meaning of _BSD_SOURCE was
defined around the time of 4.4BSD-Lite. It gives you functions that 4.3
and 4.4 had. It certainly doesn't give you everything that exists now in
NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and BSD/I.