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Re: Reuse strtonum(3) and reallocarray(3) from OpenBSD



Le 25/11/2014 03:02, Joerg Sonnenberger a écrit :
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:58:34AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
Well... I see your point, on the other hand your variant doesn't solve
my initial (and real) issue of code derived from OpenBSD -- unmodified
code sharing.

Portable versions do reproduce specific APIs without requiring an import of functions that are specific to OpenBSD. OpenSSH comes to mind.

I do not know about libressl, but last time I read about it a compatibility library was discussed. Until now libressl remains "designed by OpenBSD for OpenBSD".

Why should we have to adopt questionable interfaces? "Because OpenBSD
does it" alone is not a very good reason.

I tend to agree, however note that some ill-designed APIs do become used over time (sendfile{,64}, *at, ...). NetBSD has to cope with those too.

What about hiding these prototypes between __OPENBSD_COMPAT macros?

I am against making them universally accessible without explicit flag though, especially if yet-another-project creates the same function but with a different prototype... That will become messy.

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Jean-Yves Migeon


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