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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:44:42 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Todo for release?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:24:13PM -0500, Richard Pennington wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 02:57:09 PM Rich Felker wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
>
> I used the NetBSD version and it built with musl just fine with no internal
> stuff, as I recall.
>
> http://ellcc.org/viewvc/svn/ellcc/trunk/libecc/src/musl/src/bsd/
How big is it? I looked at it casually earlier today and didn't see
anything horribly offensive in the code; it looks to even get
allocation failure error cases right.
Rich
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