to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but
I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too
much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you
-contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library.
+contact your vendor and express interest in a conforming C library.
That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even
between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put
required shims are OK.
Current shims:
- * C99 integer types 'inttypes.h'
* sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs
* rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname.
The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
Debian GNU Linux 'woody'
* All Archs
- Works flawlessly
- - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and docbook2man installed to get
+ - You will want to have docbook-xml and docbook2man installed to get
best results.
- No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1.