From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: documenting musl
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 02:12:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120909061246.GF27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D76BD98-236A-4CB2-BF82-ED9F559E4431@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:15:47PM -0700, nwmcsween@gmail.com wrote:
> Posix only describes what it must do not how it does it as musl vs
> glibc vs any other libc in my opinion anyways
My point was that the what vs how is an important distinction, and I
don't think it's useful for us to duplicate the "what", which POSIX
already did very well. The how is of course interesting to anybody
reading the code, and inline comments may be a good place to put that.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-08 2:40 Rich Felker
2012-09-08 6:36 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-09-08 8:44 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-08 11:48 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-08 12:35 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-08 12:46 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-08 12:53 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-08 12:47 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-08 13:12 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-08 13:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-08 13:42 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-08 14:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-09 1:43 ` John Spencer
2012-09-08 14:24 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-09-08 15:07 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-09-08 19:46 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-09-08 11:44 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-08 14:53 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-09-09 3:09 ` nwmcsween
2012-09-09 4:15 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 4:15 ` nwmcsween
2012-09-09 6:12 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-09-09 8:04 ` Justin Cormack
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