> > So, which other systems would benefit from that? > Well, for instance BSD ... Which is why ports of glibc to *BSD are being worked on. We want not only libio but also the i18n features and a correctly working dlopen. http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu-freebsd/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200207/msg00019.html Bruno