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Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002 ...
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- To: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb at becket dot net>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>, <leclerc at austin dot sns dot slb dot com>, <security-audit at ferret dot lmh dot ox dot ac dot uk>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, <open-source at csl dot sri dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:54:07 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002 ...
On 10 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> However, it is. And unless the glibc maintainers are willing to patch
> all the programs that use it, those programs are currently not
> portable.
You're saying: other people did stupid choices, and glibc should make
stupid choices of its own to cover for those other people?
More importantly, even _if_ glibc were to make that choice, those stupid
programs would STILL not be portable.
Linus