Xref: utzoo alt.sources:1644 comp.lang.misc:4630 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Big Mistake in System V TCL distribution. Message-ID: <:WF25NAxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 23 Mar 90 23:12:52 GMT References: <18169@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Mar23.164630.24318@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1990Mar23.164630.24318@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: > "index" as a function name in a C standard library is not allowed. > IF the C library in question has such a function, it is broken. That's well and good, but in the real world you have to live with old software and you have to de-facto treat anything in the BSD, System III, Version 7, and System V libraries (including read, write, ioctl, and dup2 as well as index and rindex) as sacred. If I had, in fact, done what John thought I did my ass would be grass. In fact, though, I didn't. I'd prefer he hadn't jumped on my case before checking the code... I know he has a copy... but he was at least as justified in doing so as I've been on occasions when I've gone off half-cocked. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v