Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> > > At least libnsl and libsocket are still seperate libraries since they
> > > are far too big (and IMO they should remain seperate since not every
> > > application needs networking)
> >
> > We (Solaris Networking) are seriously considering folding libnsl and
> > libsocket into libc.
>
> Ouch... Ok...
> ... some notes/questions for that work:
> 1. It would be nice to move ONLY the current POSIX-based and other
> standards-based functionality (Unix98 etc.) libnsl+libsocket functions
> to libc and keep all the compatibilty-wrapper stuff in libnsl/libsocket
> to avoid that libc gets bloated with 20years of Unix
> backwards-compatibility workarounds
>
> 2. Maybe [1] could be extended to the non-reentrant/threadsafe versions
> of some functions, e.g. |gethostbyname_r()| moves to libc,
> |gethostbyname()| remains in libnsl (OkOk, this is just
> dreaming/wishfull thinking... but such a "split" would avoid adding more
> global read/write data to libc and may even influence application
> programmers to use the |*_r()| interfaces by default)
What is the idea behind this proposal? Do you like
to confuse autoconfiguration build systems on future versions of Solaris?
Jörg
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