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Re: extra exports
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:22:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: extra exports
- References: <004501c21d76$d1bac560$0100a8c0@advent02>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:06:07AM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>Could basename, asprintf and vasprintf from libiberty be linked with
>and exported by the cygwin DLL. Also, could getsid be exported (it
>exists, but is not exported). If this is ok, I'll submit a patch.
While I have no objection to including these functions, I'd prefer not
to include anything more from libiberty. I wish I'd never added the
functions that I did add, in fact.
A better way to go might be to contribute similar functionality to
newlib. You could even grab the bsd version of these routines.
cgf