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Re: [RFC][PATCH v8 06/16] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:15:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v8 06/16] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
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On 06/28/2017 12:22 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> Also I keep in mind that this reinterpretation is the same as what BSD
> family did about 20 years ago and what POSIX accepted as their future
> change.
I looked at this last year (or earlier this year), and FreeBSD did not
make this change wholesale. Their system wass in an inconsistent
transitional state. So I don't FreeBSD is a good argument against or in
favor this change.
Florian