Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote: > And, if there are things like funopen(), why do Gnome hackers invent > their own APIs like gnome-vfs? Does somebody actually use funopen()? > Does it really work? They presumably did it because they thought it would be a good idea. P

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:05:38AM -0800, Atifa Kheel wrote: Some other comments: > glibc support for standards: > ANSI C(ISO C) > POSIX (Pthreads support) > SYSTEM V > (Eg: > Malloc tunable parameter(mallopt) > Extensions : > Statistics for storage allocation with malloc(mallinfo) > _tolower() a

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:31:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > System database and name service switch(NSS) > > glibc: Supported > > BSD libc: NSS not supported.Incompatible shadow and password support and > > ancient utmp. > > (Problem Solved by writing a library libshadow) > > User applicati