libio

[Andreas Jaeger]

Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de> writes:

> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [Sorry for the former subject, I confused lists/subjects]
>
>> Why would you want that?
>
> We are trying to extract the libio-based stdio implementation from
> glibc and put it into it's own package.  This would make it possible
> to use GNU libio with all it's nice features on non-glibc-systems.

So, which other systems would benefit from that?  What do you have in
mind?

> The status how libio is at the moment is a bit weird, because the
> support for compiling it outside of glibc is not complete - nor is it
> completely removed.

We can remove the support if you prefer ;-)

Andreas
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