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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:15:16 +0200
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Todo for release?

2012/8/22 Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Very helpful would be support for fts.h in musl:
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/fts.3.html
>
> Can these functions be implemented purely as library functionality,
> without any hooks into libc internals? I was thinking it might be nice
> to isolate all such code into a single subtree in musl, so that folks
> wanting to use it outside musl (either directly in application source
> trees, or in libraries) could easily find and use it.

This is a very good idea!

Daniel

> Of course there's also the option of putting such code in a separate
> library outside of libc (i.e. not including it in libc) which some
> people might prefer, but if it's small and historically in libcs and
> doesn't create maintenance burden, I'm not opposed to having it in
> libc..
>
> Rich

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