Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >Would I be correct in thinking that SUNW_private means that 3rd parties > >shouldn't be using the interfaces? If that is the case, what is the > >problem with making the public intefaces? The reason I ask is that I > >can it being desirable for 3rd party SW to use /etc/default-type files, > >and having the API being public would prevent the need for them to roll > >their own. (Sorry if this has been covered before somewhere in the ksh93 > >threads, but I just haven't had the time to keep up with the hundreds of > >messages therein!) > > Because they are crummy interfaces.
I agree... the |def*()|-interfaces look like that someone wrote some helper code which then got hacked by someone else, hacks got added on top of these hacks and then hacks were added to work around other hacks and after many years someone tacked-on additional features via new hacks... grumpf... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
