Re: On pw_dup(3), and development in general (was: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc)

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Klaus Klein <kleink%reziprozitaet.de@localhost> writes:
> I see your point.  However, pw_dup(3) was supposed to support BSD auth
> integration (which was to end up in libutil, and where it belongs
> according to your reasoning), and as a supporting interface it seemed
> to be suited there much better; I expect general use (outside the
> domain of system-wide authentication management and the like), which
> is was libc is for, to be negligible.

Perhaps, but it is a general purpose interface, regardless of what it
is used for. (It is also a very simple interface...)


Perry