Hi! On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 13:12:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/7/7 Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>: > > Even though it is good to make our code conform to standards as much as > > possible, do keep in mind that your patch also causes a lot of > > regressions in that area. The code now uses asprintf(), which is not > > part of POSIX. I also think the use of __GLIBC__ is frowned upon. > > Uhm... you're right. Actually I knew asprintf() is not part of POSIX, > it just didn't occur to me that this contradicted my point about > MAXPATHLEN [1].
> [1] Btw, POSIX itself is quite contradictory too: it doesn't let you > assume MAXPATHLEN, but it doesn't give you the facilities you need in > case it isn't present (e.g. asprintf and canonicalize_file_name but > gethostname and getline / fgetln come to mind too). Well, canonicalize_file_name() has been standardized in POSIX.1-2008 as realpath(path, NULL), which GNU/* and FreeBSD have supported for a long time. getline() is also part of POSIX.1-2008. regards, guillem _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
