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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:22:39 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: extra exports
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:06:07AM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>Could basename, asprintf and vasprintf from libiberty be linked with
>and exported by the cygwin DLL.  Also, could getsid be exported (it
>exists, but is not exported).  If this is ok, I'll submit a patch.

While I have no objection to including these functions, I'd prefer not
to include anything more from libiberty.  I wish I'd never added the
functions that I did add, in fact.

A better way to go might be to contribute similar functionality to
newlib.  You could even grab the bsd version of these routines.

cgf