[Gllug] endian.h

[chris.wareham at btopenworld.com]

rich at annexia.org wrote:
> 
> FWIW I've just ported a load of code which was written on Linux to
> OpenBSD and Solaris, and I'm constantly surprised by how much Solaris
> (in particular) and OpenBSD lack in their APIs. Really basic stuff
> like Solaris not having 'setenv(3)'. I'm amazed that people actually
> prefer to pay money for this crap. (</solaris-rant>)
> 

Perhaps it's because OpenBSD and Solaris conform to standards, while
Linux and glibc have god knows how many dubious extensions. setenv is
often a wrapper around getenv and putenv anyway, so you're not even
guaranteed the atomicity of setenv when you don't want to overwrite an
existing variable in a threaded application.

Chris


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