Modular C library

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Branden,

You mentioned something like this some time ago.  And then we came back to it 
with the subchapter pages.

Every time I try to patch glibc, I come again to this idea: the standard C 
library is doomed to be a mess, because the standard mandates it.  I'm 
considering writing a new C library that is designed as a hurd of 
microlibraries, which can be replaced independently.  One could mix'n'match each 
of those microlibraries, since they would only rely on the public interface of 
other functions, so implementation details would matter very little.  The 
headers would be organized and split, into (relatively-deep) directory trees.

I'll write the functions with a c_ prefix, so that I'm able to reserve all c_* 
identifiers for use by this library, and all headers will start with <c/*>.

With that, this library will be able to live side-by-side with any libc; and in 
fact will need it while it's incomplete and it's not the default system library.

So far, I'll make my recent libstp be one of these micro libraries.

If you're interested in it, I'll open a public git repo for it.

Cheers,

Alex

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