Subject: Re: closefrom()
To: Klaus Klein (by way of Klaus Klein ) <kleink@mibh.de>
From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/26/2004 23:48:03
Klaus Klein (by way of Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>) wrote:
> I agree.  However, what's the rationale behind its declaration
> having ended up in <stdlib.h>?  I won't contend that Solaris'
> is prior art, but since <stdlib.h> rarely concerns itself with
> file descriptor management, OpenBSD's in <unistd.h> seems a
> more natural choice of placement to me, but it's also unnecessarily
> diverging.
> 

both unistd and stdlib have their history of portability issues, and 
none seems better from a "rational" viewpoint. so the winner is the 
first that had it... the argument stating that stdlib is std and should 
be reserved to std c has history against it...

Now, whether it goes to unistd, stdlib, newstandard.h or 
hasta_siempre_la_revolution.h is a secondary question. The header files 
mechanism is one the (archaic?) C "features" that causes too many 
problems and should deserve very little time.

so go add it. just put the declaration in any header file you feel good.