policy on __libc_*

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Wed Jan 5 20:03:00 GMT 2000


Regardless of the other bickering, I don't think I got a clear answer on
the question of what the general policy is about __libc_foo names.  I've
just __libc_ified lseek, open, and fcntl for the hurd since other things
have come to use those.  This is a non-issue for the hurd, since
cancellation is handled entirely differently (the __libc_foo, __foo, and
foo names are all aliases for the same thing regardless), but it would be
nice to know what to expect from the os-independent parts of libc.


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