Subject: Re: pw_policy(3) override functionality
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/21/2006 08:57:41
On Sep 21, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> I am very concerned about a circular library dependency here.  How  
> sure
> can we be that we will never call any libutil function from proplib
> itself?

proplib is very self-contained -- it also runs in the kernel.

> My other concern would be that we need to keep the size of whatever is
> pulled in from proplib when linking to libutil small, since libutil is
> used in some things that should not be large.

Why does this matter in our all-dynamic world?

-- thorpej