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Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- From: tb at becket dot net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
- 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: 09 Jan 2002 14:19:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- References: <20020109221850.B32231BA05@perdition.linnaean.org>
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> > 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.
Yeah, but why not try, provided it's reasonably simple. In the case
of these functions, it's very very simple.