On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:28:41PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Roy Marples <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> comparing a netbsd pseudostandard and posix is indeed a weird comparison > >> (you vastly overestimate the importance of netbsd vs. an extremely widely > >> implemented industry standard), but you missed the crucial difference: > >> getline is NOT visible in the standard header file until it is requested > >> to show up. > > > > It is visible by default the latest glibc I think. > > You ignore the point I made: netbsd is not posix (no pun intended) and > simply doesn't have the power to force it's api as standard on the rest of > the world easily (GNU/Linux has vastly more power, but it sitll is nothing > compared to, say, posix). > > But it is obvious that you don't care - that's the real problem.
rxvt is not requesting POSIX. If it would, popcount would not be visible from string.h. But it is easy to bitch first. Joerg _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
