Re: CVS commit: basesrc

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

Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry%ieee.org@localhost> writes:
> > David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> > > Log Message:
> > > Add humanize_number.3 from Tomas Svensson in PR lib/15508.
> > >   Bump version of libutil
> > 
> > libutil is really for things like getting ptys, not for general
> > purpose routines like this. It is a mistake to put it there.
> 
> I guess that fparseln doesn't either.

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.


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