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Re: [PATCH]: Implement getprogname and setprogname
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:09:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Implement getprogname and setprogname
- References: <bpbrdm$7pp$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:08:05PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Corrina's latest check-in for stdlib.h prodded me into finishing the
>documentation for my implementation of these two functions for newlib
>(as opposed to just Cygwin). So, I'm submitting a patch with source,
>inline texinfo documentation, and the bsd manpage. I am also working on
>quite a few other bsd/SuSv3/c99 functions which seem to be located in
>most libc's "gen" dir. So I hope you don't mind that I created that
>dir. More contributions to follow.
>
>Also, if you approve it, please commit the bzipped patch, not the
>inlined text one, since my MUA is munging tabs and some whitespaces.
Then you should use another MUA.
>Code is based off of {Free,Net}BSD sources.
This is entirely BSD specific. IMO, it doesn't belong in newlib.
cgf