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Re: malloc/free/realloc will be renamed in the kernel


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:49:51 +0200
Mail-followup-to: kernel@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:07:31PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> looking at those tasks, we don't need any "special" libc support:  syscalls 
> don't require libc.  stuff like malloc(3), strlen(3), gethostbyaddr(3), 
> db*(3), all this stuff is not needed by a kernel.

And most of the later still shouldn't be used by the kernel (e.g. db(3))
or are available via libkern anyway.

Joerg



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