From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10801041733h41cffcaagbf81e0653a021e5f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:33:22 -0500 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Another amusing glibc day ... In-Reply-To: <646ff839a4d2833721b02a7428038704@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5425_8058061.1199496802259" References: <283f5df10801041707vcfd2d22x882f77ecb6992d1c@mail.gmail.com> <646ff839a4d2833721b02a7428038704@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 279e82b8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_5425_8058061.1199496802259 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > -- "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures" -- Heraclitus ------=_Part_5425_8058061.1199496802259 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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



--
   "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense."

   "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."

   "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures"
-- Heraclitus ------=_Part_5425_8058061.1199496802259--