Re: doc update

[Eric Blake]

Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> writes:

> Personally, I think that if glibc, Mac OS X, cygwin and maybe Solaris

Any of the BSDs?  For example, FreeBSD is finally starting to provide all of 
the POSIX *at interfaces, even faster than Solaris (even though it was Solaris 
that even started the idea of creating *at interfaces in the first place, 
before glibc extended their power and POSIX standardized them).

> supported some interface I may want to start rely on it as a maintainer,
> if I can get a replacement function into gnulib.  But if only glibc
> supports an API, and there is no strong compelling reason to use it, I
> may prefer to use POSIX interfaces instead.

True.  But this argument only applies to the doc/glibc-functions directory.  
The doc/posix-functions directory IS all about the POSIX interfaces, and the 
interfaces that sparked this thread were the *_l functions, which happen to be 
POSIX functions (just not widely implemented yet).

-- 
Eric Blake