Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:54:51 +0100 (BST)


> So is glibc going to take out every single function that is not defined
> by some standard, or is it going to try to keep compatibility with other
> Unix systems and older Linux libc? Or are we going to have another
> divergent C library for Linux?

This is the point of _FOO_SOURCE. So you can have one library that handles
everything cleanly and respects the origin of the code.

Alan

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