[open-source] Re: Wish for 2002 ...

[Linus Torvalds]

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