whoami.h, standardisation of UNIX ve

Andrew Klossner andrew at orca.UUCP
Sat Jul 14 02:25:31 AEST 1984


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	"It would help a very large number of vendors and customers if
	the concept of whoami.h or any other "site customization"
	header file was stricken from consideration in this area.  If
	you don't have source, then whoami.h doesn't work!  Since
	object-only licenses are going to dominate the UNIX* system
	market (if they don't already), designs like the uname call are
	the only way to go -- assuming some way is provided to set it,
	as well."

On each of the three different binary-only systems I've seen, all of
the /usr/include/*.h and /usr/include/sys/*.h files were present.
Their absence would disallow compilation of user programs which do
"#include <ioctl.h>", for example.

Are there any binary vendors that disinclude the header files?

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)      [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix at rand-relay)  [ARPA]



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