Principles for API sources

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On 11/06/2015 09:07 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > Various recent proposals for new APIs taken from existing sources of APIs 
> > seem to have got stuck for similar reasons.  This includes Linux kernel 
> > syscall wrappers as well as explicit_bzero and strlcpy.  I'd like to 
> > propose some general principles for such APIs in the hopes of unsticking 
> > those discussions - if we can get consensus on principles (consensus does 
> > not mean unanimity; consensus does not mean waiting indefinitely for 
> > people who might want to contribute to the discussion at some 
> > indeterminate point in the future) then we don't need to redebate the 
> > principles for each proposed API, just consider how they apply to that 
> > API.
> 
> I generally like the sound of this (and not just because it might
> unstick explicit_bzero ;-) but I have a couple notes ...

Given the discussion so far I think you should update and resubmit the 
explicit_bzero patch.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com