It may be obsolete, but shouldn't it be removed when all the other operating systems (Unix like variants) decide remove it ? BeOS is a unix like OS. Bye, -Anoop On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2009-10-01 at 08:24:59 [+0800], Anoop Kumar Narayanan > <anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sure thing, will put it as an improvement ! > > Please don't. The related functions are no longer part of the POSIX > standard and had been marked obsolescent for years before. > > CU, Ingo > >