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Re: __* in installed headers
- To: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
- Subject: Re: __* in installed headers
- From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:15:43 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
> |> But this leaves __write and write without prototypes and at least
> |> __write is used internally.
>
> We don't want to use write anywhere in libc, so a missing prototype is not
> a problem.
The only problem could be the few binaries we have: rpcgen, nscd, utmpd, ...
They will use write or other functions, but couldn't use __write.
We have to make sure, that they will not use the defines.
Thorsten
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