Erwin fired up a ports build a couple of weeks ago and it seems the
following functions are not used by any of the 20k ports we have, which
makes me believe they don't have any purpose. Just remove them.
Erwin ran an exp-run with libcompat and <regexp.h> removed. It turns out
the regexp library is almost entirely unused. In fact, it looks like it
is sometimes used by accident. Because these function names clash with
libc's <regex.h>, some application use both <regex.h> and libcompat,
which means they link against the wrong regex library.
This commit removes the regexp library and reimplements re_comp() and
re_exec() using <regex.h>. It seems the grammar of the regular
expressions accepted by these functions is similar to POSIX EREs.
After this commit, 1 low-profile port will be broken, but the maintainer
already has a patch for it sitting in his mailbox.
the compatibility library libcompat.
- Add new implementations of lsearch() and lfind() which conform to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 to libc. Add a new manual page for them and
add them to the makefile.
- Add function prototypes for lsearch() and lfind() to the search.h
header.
page from the compatibility library.
- Add new implementations of insque() and remque() which conform to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 to libc. Add a new manual page for them and
connect them to the build.
- Add the prototypes of insque() and remque() to the search.h
header.
libcompat" in favour of a .Sh LIBRARY section using the .Lb macro. Also add
.Bf -symbolic around the text saying "this is obsolete" in re_comp.3.
PR: 22675
Submitted by: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Reviewed by: sheldonh
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
link stage fell over for any program that attempted to use rexec().
Ruserpass() remains undocumented; i could not find any documentation
for it on other systems.
Also added a BUGS section to the man page, stating that this function
constitutes a potential security hole (as well as the underlying
"exec" service).
Submitted by: rgrimes
Originally submitted by: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Obtained from: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG
o add missing man pages
o make all man pages clearly refer to the libcompat thingie
o add the information to the vtimes(3) and vlimit(3) man pages
that nobody has reimplemented the functions by now
o add the missing getpw.c
o add code and man pages for cftime(3) and
ascftime(3) -- i found them somewhere in old
unfinished work
