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At 10:38 PM 1/26/2001 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:40:05PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > It depends on your platform--some have threadsafe gethost* calls and
> don't
> > > need the _r version, and some don't. (And some aren't threadsafe but
> don't
> > > have _r versions...)
> >
> > And don't foolishly think that there is only one set of _r variants
> > out there. There are several different signatures for getpwnam_r,
> > for example.
> >
> > > It's pretty much a crapshoot, unfortunately.
> >
> > Alan would drop -shoot :-)
>
>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
>can see why it happens)
>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
Well, there's perl... :)
Dan
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