On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:54:05AM -0700, Herman Swartz wrote: > Then, since these functions were removed from Posix 2008, should the support > of these same functions be removed for all the other platforms? >
No, we can't break the ABI, so they will stay (almost) forever. But it means that it probably won't be supported by new architectures or new operating systems and become less and less portable. That's why they should be avoided. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
