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Re: Hello and introduction


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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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