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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