Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:52:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Making {open,close,read,tell,seek}dir thread-safe.
Message-ID: <200012101852.NAA30413@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:11:39 -0500, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> said: > I started a cleanup of libc to make it thread-safe. Just as a matter of information.... The seekdir/telldir interface was debated recently by the Austin Group. The Open Group wanted to include it as part of the XSI extension to 1003.1-200x; other people were strongly opposed to its inclusion. I believe the final decision was that it seekdir/telldir would not be included, because it is impossible to implement over certain filesystems (e.g., SGI's XFS, which uses a radically different data structure for directories). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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