How is GNU software worse

if it has more features? It's not like the old features go away.

>>19
Absolutely agreed, specially with the "that's what C was originally about" part.

>>25
What "anything else"?

>>27
The Linux kernel has sendfile(). It is possible to implement cat with a dozen machine instructions and no userspace buffer at all. Given the enormous source code size of any piece of GNU software, I'd think they would have at least put a couple of #ifdefs and call sendfile() when building for a Linux target.

31 separate allocations is truly an indicator of awful coding, anyway. Altough it might be due to some libc initialization code, it's just not an excuse. That's actually the main point of my rant. GNU software is just bad C and bad UNIX. Simply that. Whether Stallman or whoever thinks it's better, it does not matter.