[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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