Re: [9fans] Another amusing glibc day ...

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That's fine by me. Besides, I don't agree with about 90% of what Herr
Drepper thinks should be in a libc anyway.
I even have a recomendation, but I'm sure most people wouldn't like it..
=)

On Jan 4, 2008 8:28 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:

> > well, uClibc & dietlibc are rather limited. *BSD libc is a viable
> option, as
> > is Sun's.
> > Honestly though, if we're going to do something as radical as get rid of
> > glibc, can we please do a little better? Might as well fix everything
> else
> > wrong, like, oh, say BSD SOCKETS!
> > =)
>
> sockets are not an invention of the c library, regardless of what drepper
> thinks.
> you'll have to swap out the operating system to do that.
>
> ... wait a second.
>
> - erik
>



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