Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-27 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. My understanding was that FreeBSD has copied the Linux version of the API. Why are we adding compatability for

Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Andrews
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. My understanding was that FreeBSD has copied the Linux version of the API. That still doesn't make it portable.

Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-26 Thread Fabian Keil
Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. Why are we adding compatability for deprecated functions? I was wondering the same thing, especially because it causes a lot of