`Hiding' libc symbols

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:53:39AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Perhaps instead of asking how to prevent symbol replacement, one
> should be asking how to get rid of incestuous functions in the
> library implementation for standard library functions.
> 
> No, I do not expect "_fmt" (or whatever) to go away from common
> code in printf/sprintf/whatever.  But I do expect it to be "_fmt"
> instead of "fmt", i.e. in implementation space, rather than in
> the symbol space legal for users to use.

This is exactly what I wish to achieve.  This is exactly the approach
that I took with strlcpy [1]:  the internal implementation is called
`_strlcpy', while the exported symbol remains `strlcpy'.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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[1] Before I backed it out in an attempt to demonstrate good will.