Re: Proposed change to "require sys/socket.ph"
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:56:53 -0700
Jack Shirazi - BIU <js@bison.lif.icnet.uk> writes:
> To ease this problem, I suggest having a file called
> "www_sys_socket.ph"
> with one line in it:
> require "sys/socket.ph";
>
> All files require'ing "sys/socket.ph" should instead require
> "www_sys_socket.ph". This way, if the user needs to roll their own using
> the c source included in the latest release, he can just overwrite
> "www_sys_socket.ph" and not have to edit anything else.
>
> If we start including other ph files for any reason, I'd suggest
> this format to be follwed for them as well.
I think I'll go with this suggestion, at least until Perl 5 is out and
about. The h2x (or h2xh?) program in Perl5 should solve these problems.
What I may do is expand the quick-fix program into something more general,
or at least include all of the POSIX names in the set.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
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