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

[Linus Torvalds]

On 9 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> Yeah, but why not try, provided it's reasonably simple.  In the case
> of these functions, it's very very simple.

No, it's not.

Technically simple, yes.

But from a user perspective it is absolutely _useless_. Because you still
cannot depend on the functions being there in glibc, even if _BSD_SOURCE
is defined.

So programs would still have to do all the same autoconf to be portable,
even if they used glibc. And that's the argument here.

		Linus