the need for safe dynamic string libraries (was Re: svn commit: r200157 - head/bin/date)

[Ed Schouten]

* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> It can be argued that we should just dump everything in libc, but
> first, that would impair portability from FreeBSD, and second, it
> would be just plain sloppy...

And would more likely cause namespace issues. Functions like login(3)
and logout(3) really fill up the namespace.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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