Re: [PATCH] remove usage of tmpnam() in ssl_unix.c
Andrew Laurence <[email protected]>
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At 4:10 PM -0700 8/14/09, Mark Crispin wrote: >On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Andrew Laurence wrote: >>One ponders, how simpler could UW/Panda become if support for >>ancient systems were swept aside? > >Not much, compared to the vast simplicity that would be achieved if >every SVR4 system -- particularly Solaris -- were to be exterminated. > >At least the death warrant was signed for Tru64 nee OSF/1. > >BSD and Linux are now close enough that their differences don't >matter to most programmers. SVR4 is a true disaster of >incompatibility. What about the mailbox formats? Are there things which could proceed much more smoothly if support for "X" were dropped?