Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!cedman From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue... Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 03:34:57 GMT References: <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk> <5570626@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM's message of 8 May 91 14:23:14 GMT In article <5570626@hpfcdc.HP.COM> rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean) writes: In article <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk> carllp@diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) writes: A lot of stuff from libBSD.a was moved into libc.a for 8.0. Plus some new ones as well. Among them were: bcmp, bcopy, bzero, ffs, getusershell, index, mkstemp, rindex, strcasecmp, and strncasecmp. What about getdtablesize ? A tiny little routine in libc.a using sysconf could save quite a few people quite a lot of trouble. (And it never even was in the standard libBSD.a) Carl Edman -- "We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do." -- Auberon Herbert Send mail to Carl Edman