From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319035526.GJ20658@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070319025636.GE11371@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> Berkely got it horribly wrong when it tried to start with the "small
> and beautiful" functions that were non-reentrant, and we've been
> paying the price ever since. Do we really want to support two
> versions of the API forever? Is it really that hard to support a
> reentrant API from the beginning? I'd submit the answer to these two
> questions are no, and no, respectively.
I agree entirely, for every reason mentioned by Ted (including
those not quoted). ;-)
I learned about gethostbyname after gethostbyname_r was already
introduced, so I have always been asking myself "uhhhhh, why do we
have gethostbyname?". ;-)
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 4:24 Libification project (SoC) Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 6:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 6:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 13:09 ` Rocco Rutte
2007-03-16 15:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 15:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 16:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 18:22 ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-16 18:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-18 13:57 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 23:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 18:20 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:38 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 21:07 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 23:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-17 7:04 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-17 17:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 19:09 ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-18 14:08 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-18 23:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 1:21 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19 1:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 2:56 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-19 3:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-03-19 14:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-21 11:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-21 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 9:51 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-19 7:01 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-19 9:46 ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 10:33 ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 12:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 12:52 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19 13:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 13:04 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 12:53 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 13:47 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 14:08 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 18:38 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 23:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-17 19:58 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 5:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-18 5:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-18 16:18 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-19 16:09 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 21:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 15:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 8:06 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-03-16 8:58 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-03-16 11:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 12:55 ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-17 2:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-17 5:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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