svn commit: trunk/busybox/libbb

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 24 June 2006 17:46, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 24 June 2006 1:06 pm, Johan Adolfsson wrote:
> > Is this a joke or due to bad air conditioning or something?
>
> No.
>
> I'm not happy with the idea of maintaining a table composed entirely of
> platform-specific #ifdefs in BusyBox.
>
> I'm much happier having documentation that allows a human to look up the
> number they need to supply when that value is so nonstandard that the
> source code would need an #ifdef to figure out if that value is even
> supplied by the standard headers or not, and which we can't _not_ take from
> those headers because they vary so much.

and thus break compatibility with stty used everywhere else ?  where do we 
draw the line in terms of "this is how standard utilities work, but this is 
how busybox works because its more convenient for us than to maintain 
compatibility"
-mike
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