[libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Wed Jan 9 14:18:00 GMT 2002


> Um, glibc is supposed to have the functions that are in BSD.  Anyone
> who defines BSD_SOURCE should get the BSD functions, and when they add
> some, so should we, at least, under that feature test macro.

"BSD" you say.  What does that mean?  The meaning of _BSD_SOURCE was
defined around the time of 4.4BSD-Lite.  It gives you functions that 4.3
and 4.4 had.  It certainly doesn't give you everything that exists now in
NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and BSD/I.



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