Re: more interfaces for the lsb spec
A few comments:
On Feb 14, 1:53pm in "more interfaces for ", tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Proposal to exclude:
> ====================
>
> ftime BSD 4.2 call obsoleted by gettimeofday
included in SUSv2 and SUSv3 (aka POSIX.1-200x) (legacy in the latter)
> Questionable:
>
> mknod obvious, do we think applications call this directly?
> POSIX.1 ducked defining this. Should we?
>
included in SUSv2 and SUSv3
>
> Malloc symbols
> ===============
>
> With the exception of the first three (which we should probably
> include), we should probably just remove the rest.
>
> mallinfo malloc interface, defined in SVID/XPG; do we care?
> mallopt malloc interface, defined in SVID/XPG; do we care?
These two were dropped probably around XPG3, and are not
in SUS vx.
> posix_memalign defined in POSIX 1003.1d (not in unknown list); do we
care?
Included as an option in SUSv3
(Interface tables are online at
http://www.unix-systems.org/apis.html
You can get the SUSv2 spec from the same site, and
the SUSv3 drafts from http://www.opengroup.org/austin/)
regards
Andrew
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