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Re: Wish for 2002 ...

Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> However, glibc has many functions that nobody should use.  Why should
> we promote them?

Because you can't remove functions from a library without breaking
backward compatibility, something that has a very high cost for glibc.

Should there be a point in the future when backward compatibility can be
broken, by all means remove them.  I think it would make perfect sense to
move functions like gets() into a separate library only for backwards
compatibility with old, bad code.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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