Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>.

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:44:19AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> I'd like to restore the traditional BSD behavior that <strings.h>
> includes the content of <string.h> in addition to the BSD bcmp, et. al.
> We changed our <strings.h> between 4.x and 5.x and now that we're at
> 5-STABLE I'm finding software that built fine on 4.x has an issue on 5.x.

What do the standards@ people have to say about this?

I don't see anything in the Single Unix Specification which would
prohibit this:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/strings.h.html

but I am not good at interpreting standards.

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