Re: Proposal: /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc
Vadim Vygonets writes:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > Bill Mitchell writes:
> > > On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > >
> > > > It will (if it will exist) have one function:
> > > > FILE *confopen(const char *path);
> > > > It will just try to fopen /etc/path, if it fails -- fopen
> > > > /usr/etc/path, if it fails, return NULL. Making a shared lib for it
> > > > is ridiculous, as is adding it to libc *shrug*.
> >
> > I'm not sure here to understand what you mean anout libc.
>
> I mean, don't make it a shared lib, because then it will require every
> person who takes a program from debian, to get this lib, too. And
> this function is too small to matter in the binary file. And libc
> solution is even worse, because... Because it's (a) ugly and (b)
> requires you to change libc and (c) this function is too trivial...
Just a matter of taste, as it seems: (a) it seems to me quite elegant,
(b) why does it disturb you to change libc ? it always evolve; it's
just natural IMO (c) and so ? let's make it a cpp macro... if we make
it at all ;)
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Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson
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