Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 21:03:37 -0500 From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This doesn't buy us much by itself, so we had not planned to make it an immediate priority. I expect to have a quasi-usable debian-hurd distribution before we get around to it. (Switching to libio requires a soname change, and when it will really buy us something is when we implement pthreads, which will also require a soname change. Pthreads is not likely to happen real soon, so if libio happened first there would be two soname changes by the end of it.) I deliberately didn't look at libio, since wide character support is planned for glibc 2.2. If we switch over after that's implemented we don't have to carry all the binary compatibility mess. Mark
