Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/12/2002 16:14:02
> > No, it doesn't. And neither do the various bit bashing operations that
> > got added. Those all belong in libc. Just because a couple of people
> > did silly things doesn't mean more people should.
I wonder what is the rule to decide whether stuff belongs to libc
or libutil?
For me, libc is for stuff which is "widely used/useful or standard stuff",
while libutil is for "misc utility functions". humanize_number()
is certainly the latter.
Jaromir
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