Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions

Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.ucw.cz)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:58:20 +0200


Hi!

> If you absolutely want to have something for the transition make this
> available in a separate package for those who want it. You could
> provide a set of headers and a library which every author who does not
> care about copmatibility or who wants a quick hack can use. This

...and I think that this set of headers and this hack library should
be named glibc, but only iff _LINUX_SOURCE is defined. (Or this magic
hack enabler should be _LINUX_I_PROMISE_I_KNOW_I_AM_DOING_BAD_THING,
if you prefer. But it still should be right there in glibc.)

BTW it might be nice to introduce some kind of __s8, __s16 etc on all
glibc systems. So that we do not have _every_ application working with
network have to autoconfigure for them.

Pavel

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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