Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/10/2003 14:26:57
>> >* Add a conforming __unsetenv13() and do function renaming for
>> > unsetenv(); preserve old symbol with old behavior.
>> >* Make visible setenv() and unsetenv() for 1003.1-2001 feature selection
>> > macros; resolves PR standards/20479.
>>
>> why __unsetenv13()? why not __unsetenv16() or __unsetenv17()? i had
>> always assumed that the numeric suffix on a renamed function was
>> somehow indicative of the last release (or first release) that had the
>> new function...
>
>Yes, but it's the version of the library, libc. libc is at major 12, thus
>in version (major) 13, they will loose the extra numberstuff.
oh, ah. i get it. cool. so i was right, but wrong. :)
>If they were systemcalls, they'd be based on the kernel version.
okay, cool.
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