2013/6/28 Glenn Fowler <[email protected]>:
>
> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-06-28 source release
> has been posted to the download site
>         http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
> the package names and md5 checksums are
>             INIT  eddbf89d061348519d86f2618b708a94
>         ast-base  a745a7d4ce6f53c2e4134af4cc835ff7
>         ast-open  fdb74839ff041e34c800c333188a050e
>          ast-ksh  8f22428cf30af7146bd210664c2fd166
> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page

The release is unusable. The new "API" - if it can be called like that
- added wrappers to all syscalls via #define, which breaks down on
OpenBSD or other platforms which already use #defines for security
wrappers. It's also undebuggable by adding yet another layer of hidden
complexity. I wouldn't mind if if the code would call _ast_open() and
friends directly but hiding it via #define open _ast_open collides
with too many other things, including system libraries and the ability
of normal minds to grok it.

So this won't fly.

Ced
-- 
Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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