David Laight writes:Indeed, it is just compatibility stuff. I'm apalled that new software is still using that deprecated (and ill-conceived) API. Maybe it's because Gnu/Linux can't do any other method (at least the last time I looked.) That shouldn't mean that on other systems (SVR4/44BSD) that broken API should be used aswell. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}
