Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> writes: > Shouldn't concerns about portability be in the minds of upstream > maintainers? Yes. But providing a nice general patch that won't break other platforms will go a long way to get your patch included. If it is too much work for her, upstream may just ignore the Hurd for now and will cause more work for us in the long run. > And refusing to use something like asprintf, is just duplicating > code which is already in the glibc IMHO you should definitely use asprintf. An asprintf implementation with the proper license is usually easy to snarf from the net, and linking that with your code if the platform in question does not provide it is no big deal either. -- Robbe
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