Unbreaking allbareconfig (svn 16125).

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Sun Sep 17 20:34:25 UTC 2006


On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:05:03PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:16:21PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
>> hi,
>> just a reminder that paths.h contains:
>>  _PATH_TTY       "/dev/tty"
>>  _PATH_CONSOLE   "/dev/console"
>> 
>> i am just intending to prevent to invent that wheel again.
>
>Using #defines for these is even more nonsensical than using external
>string vars. At least the extern vars save a few bytes. The defines
>just attempt to abstract something that WILL NEVER CHANGE. Not to


>mention these are glibc-specific (all of paths.h is).
yes.
There is no reliant content of paths.h at all. We absolutely have to
provide these as we use them.



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