Subject: Re: On pw_dup(3), and development in general (was: Re: CVS commit:
To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/15/2003 00:50:27
"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> writes:

> [ On Sunday, September 14, 2003 at 19:31:28 (+0200), Klaus Klein wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: On pw_dup(3), and development in general (was: Re: CVS commit:  src/lib/libc)
>>
>> All other sorts of things being thrown into libc gets even more
>> annoying.  (Reasons for not having pw_dup(3) in libc have been
>> mentioned previously.)
>
> The only reason I think you people could have for being annoyed at all
> the new things that can and should get into libc is because you rely far
> too much on dynamic linking _and_ because you're way too afraid to bump
> the major number on libc.so when it really should be bumped.

"Thank you for your careful consideration."  Unfortunately, you
missed.  It's disappointing to see you jump on that bandwagon again
because you either couldn't help it or did not care to investigate
what those reasons are, which you could have easily found in this
thread.


- Klaus