On Tue May 6 04:39:11 EDT 2014, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
> > also, quite a bit that is unaccountably still in other kernels ("because
> > Unix did it exactly that way in the 1970s on a PDP-11")
>
> I think that "unaccountably" is a bit harsh. There is A L O T of old
> Unix software that still just compiles and works out of the box on
> Linux, Solaris, *BSD. There is a lot of value to that, when what you
> care about is getting your work done (KTBR - Keep The Business Running).
my experience is the opposite. basic c library functions have been built
into the compiler, and the types have changed.
- erik
