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Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- To: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb at becket dot net>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>, Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:59:45 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
On 9 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> Yeah, but why not try, provided it's reasonably simple. In the case
> of these functions, it's very very simple.
No, it's not.
Technically simple, yes.
But from a user perspective it is absolutely _useless_. Because you still
cannot depend on the functions being there in glibc, even if _BSD_SOURCE
is defined.
So programs would still have to do all the same autoconf to be portable,
even if they used glibc. And that's the argument here.
Linus