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Re: Hello and introduction
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap at eros-os dot org>
- Cc: libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:18:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Hello and introduction
- References: <1127498428.3212.75.camel@mikado64.cs.jhu.edu>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:00:28PM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> I don't see any benefit to chewing up people's time and attention wihout
> any purpose, which raises the following question:
>
> Is it a glibc design objective to support current non-POSIX platforms?
While I can't speak for the official maintainers, I would expect the
answer to be no. The point of glibc is to provide a POSIX compliant C
library. A fundamentally non-compliant system makes that much harder,
and a system which doesn't desire POSIX compliance seems like a bad
fit.
For instance the entire multithreading infrastructure assumes POSIX.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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