From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20070319035526.GJ20658@spearce.org> References: <20070316060033.GD31606@spearce.org> <7vps79wueu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070316130958.GD1783@peter.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de> <20070318140816.GG4489@pasky.or.cz> <20070319012111.GS18276@pasky.or.cz> <20070319025636.GE11371@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , Rocco Rutte , git@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 19 04:55:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HT8y6-0001jL-0Z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:55:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965424AbXCSDzd (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965452AbXCSDzd (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:33 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:49933 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965424AbXCSDzc (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:32 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HT8xo-0000L9-36; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:16 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC20320FBAE; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070319025636.GE11371@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso 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.