star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

[James Carlson]

Darren J Moffat writes:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > The issue is that those "> 100" directories (actually 167!) are named for
> > a specific function, group or interface set.  I'm not sure exactly what
> > "schily" stands for, but I'd guess it is a person or a distro.  We don't
> > have subdirectories such as "redhat" or "kowalski".  (And if we had
> > a "redhat" directory it would be for compatibility interfaces, not because
> > they are native interfaces which happened to come from redhat.)
> 
> We do have /usr/include/ast though.

Unless it's really reasonable and expected for third parties to link
against libast, I think that's very likely to be a mistake.  We should
just fix the mistake ... but that's not this case.

Just because you've made a mistake in the past, though, doesn't mean
that you need to keep on repeating it.  Improvement ought to be
possible, and in this case, "improvement" means not shipping yet
another unnecessary and confusing private reimplementation of standard
programming interfaces.

You can reinvent stdio if you want, though I can't really recommend it
as improving the existing one is a much better idea.  However, nobody
else should need to care if you do.

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