Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon Jan 05 2009 at 17:42:23 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Module Name:    src
> > Committed By:   pooka
> > Date:           Mon Jan  5 21:42:37 UTC 2009
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >        src/sys/kern: kern_malloc.c
> >        src/sys/rump/librump/rumpkern: Makefile.rumpkern emul.c
> >        src/sys/rump/librump/rumpuser: Makefile rumpuser.c
> >        src/sys/sys: malloc.h
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Rename malloc() to kern_malloc() to avoid name conflict with libc.
> > Now it is possible to use the kernel linker with rump.
> >
> Isn't that a bit too intrusive ? There is plenty of way to avoid name
> conflict without touch the function name.

Intrusive to what?