Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 source compatibility Message-ID: <2692@sun.uucp> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:59:53 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2692 Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:59:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:38:53 EDT References: <427@azure.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 > I really like to try to keep my source code generic, with the > occasional machine/compiler/operating dependencies handled with > #ifdef's. This is more-or-less possible in all cases I have come > across except for the stupid .h files that moved under 4.2. (I > refer specifically to time.h and ndir.h .) ... > > A PLEA TO BERKELEY (but it's probably too late for 4.3): I believe there is aas well as a in 4.3 (yay!). As for , I don't know which systems other than 4.[23] are distributed with the directory library; the maintainers of those systems should 1) put or whatever into and 2) put the directory library routines into the C library. 4.3 should then make a symlink to or something like that. (We did both at CCI - the first in our V7/S3-based system and the second in our 4.2-based system.) Guy Harris