os-byte and UnixLib

[John Tytgat]

In message <95c8aa4d4a.Tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> This rather begs the question of what UnixLib thinks it's doing trampling on
> OSLib's namespace (if that's what's happening).

You may find that UnixLib is already defining os_byte since a long time
ago (see its #include <sys/os.h>), but what's your point ? "We were first
so the others are wrong" ? And what's the OSLib's namespace ?

> If they've enhanced UnixLib
> to implement OS calls, then presumably you don't need OSLib as well.
> More likely they've implemented a few os calls to support their own
> use, and used the same name as OSLib; this would be unforgivably foolish
> IMHO. Perhaps you need to check out the documentation with your release. 

This has been the case for a long time and I really don't know if it was
before or after OSLib's public release.  No need to be so harsh about
it.

John.
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