News from AIX

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Tim Rice wrote:

> > +#ifdef _AIX
>           ^^^^^
> Do we really want this?
> I'd much rather see HAVE_UINFO_H and HAVE_USERINFO with the
> apropriate tests in configure.in

I think the _AIX is appropriate in this case - usrinfo() doesn't seem to
conform to any standard. The name is also short enough and generic enough
to appear elsewhere with a completely different function.

-d

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