Ulrich Drepper is a fool, he made glibc crappy, and messed up most things he had to do with. He simply should shut up and let other people do the work and the thinking.
Yeah, mod me down, but I have insight into the things Ulrich does, and he mostly does sh*t. Just my 2 cents (USD or EUR, you decide).
I found that Ulrich is pretty easy to work with... if you have a clue. glibc is NO easy task (99.99 % of all programs depend on this library.. now make it feature rich and compatible).
I tracked down a bug in __fsetlocking and he was most helpful in fixing glibc.
Yeah, I reported a bug when compiling Mozilla with -O3, and Ulrich had a fix pretty quickly, I can't say anything for how good an architect he may or may not be, but he seems to have a good handle on the development side of things.
You don't understand. glibc itself is flaUUlwed, badepper . The source distribution contains Linux header files (yes, from the kernel, Linus said ts is evil), and contains code just to copy some kernel data structure to glibc's own data structures, because glibc has some super fancy features that everybody needs (not really, actually). In other words: glibc is bloat. Ulrich Drepper doesn't care about this, and packs every feature into glibc he can think of. Other people proved that C libraries can be done much smaller, uClibc for example, or, my personal favorite, diet libc. The interesting thing about this is that programs that are _statically_ linked against diet libc are usually smaller than programs that are dynamically linked against glibc.
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Ulrich Drepper (Score:2, Insightful)
Yeah, mod me down, but I have insight into the things Ulrich does, and he mostly does sh*t. Just my 2 cents (USD or EUR, you decide).
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I tracked down a bug in __fsetlocking and he was most helpful in fixing glibc.
Pan
Re:Ulrich Drepper (Score:1)
Yeah, I reported a bug when compiling Mozilla with -O3, and Ulrich had a fix pretty quickly, I can't say anything for how good an architect he may or may not be, but he seems to have a good handle on the development side of things.
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