cvs commit: src UPDATING src/include fts.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc Symbol.map fts-compat.c fts-compat.h fts.3 fts.c src/sys/sys param.h

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> writes:
> Excuse me, but did you notice that fts(3) is not a part of sys?  It's
> generic userland code, albeit it's contaminated by system-dependent
> parts for performance or whatever.

Irrelevant.

> But let intN_t be mostly confined in the kernel and system-dependent
> userland code.  E.g., system-dependent include files can use them
> to define more portable types such as ino_t, nlink_t, or whatever.

C99 doesn't define those either.

> Userland code should be portable and useful to other systems in the
> chosen domain of compatibility, e.g., C99 or POSIX, unless there
> are substantial reasons for it not to.  That's how different projects
> can benefit from each other's work.

Both C99 and POSIX *require* int64_t and uint64_t on all platforms that
have 64-bit integer types.

FreeBSD has never run on any platform that doesn't.  I don't think
NetBSD or OpenBSD has either, nor Solaris, nor Linux to my knowledge.

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