> 
> On Sat, 8 Oct 1994 07:58:53 -0400 
>  der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> wrote:
> 
>  > That kind of thinking would have us still using punched cards on IBM
>  > mainframes.  There comes a point where an incompatible change must be
>  > made.  The particular change under discussion has the nice property
>  > that a changed system is compatible with old code - which is more than
>  > can be said of many of the changes with tradition that NetBSD has made,
>  > such as POSIX sessions and the infamous setreuid() stuff, which break
>  > existing code that works on pre-change systems.
> 
> Let me just state the reason I sent the bug report in the first place...
> 
> The particular program I was compiling (Dhrystones) built *out of the 
> box* under HP-UX (7.0-9.05), Dynix 3.1.2, Dynix/ptx 2.1, and SunOS 
> 4.1.3.  While none of these other OS's have <sys/types.h> included in 
> <sys/resource.h> (HP-UX does only if you define _INCLUDE_HPUX_SOURCE), 
> none of them use quad_t (or any other non-builtin type) either.
> 
> So why should NetBSD, which is, IMHO, a far-superior OS, require someone 
> to modify the code they just built on some other platform without any 
> problems?  I'm sorry, but this seems rather rediculous.

Because you have misported dry.c to NetBSD:
#ifdef TIMES
#include <sys/types.h>          
#include <sys/times.h>
#include <limits.h>
#endif

BSD systems need the #define TIMES turned on....

> Maybe I'm just too picky, but there's alot of old code like this out there...

No, you mis ported the code.

> 
> Later...
> 
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