[OpenAFS-devel] str madness

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:01:17 -0500


Yes, when they don't behave consistently across platforms. Not sure this
is the case anywhere, but in many cases, it's easier to just have our
own, and prototype it consistently everywhere this way.=20

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Rees [mailto:rees@umich.edu]=20
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] str madness
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> Is there any good reason for the str routines in afs_util.c=20
> to have afs_
> prepended to their names?  Wouldn't it make more sense to=20
> give them their
> real names, and conditionally compile them depending on=20
> what's available in
> the host kernel?  Maybe even with the help of autoconf?  (Yes I know
> autoconf support for kernel code is incomplete).
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