Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!cs.uu.nl!news0.firedrake.org!news.srvr.nix!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Coreutils C question Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:50 +0000 Organization: the Core Lines: 13 Message-ID: <87obrqxkb9.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <87zkbcrprz.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> Reply-To: Nix <$}xinix{$@esperi.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: spindle.srvr.nix Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: spindle.srvr.nix 1332329450 11715 192.168.14.15 (21 Mar 2012 11:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@esperi.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Emacs: ed :: 20-megaton hydrogen bomb : firecracker Cancel-Lock: sha1:nIKXUwjmxnyNmBL/oRslF3SmIEE= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.system:410 On 20 Mar 2012, Benjamin S. said: > I also think it might be for portability reasons (cross-OS stuff). I got > the source from an official Linux repos (Ubuntu 10.10). I wonder whether > they've removed all options with regards to other OS. From what I > understand the coreutils package was rewritten/organized so maybe it is a > leftover. It's clearly a leftover, if perhaps left around because it is plausible that some future machine might also require constant per-utility initialization. -- NULL && (void)