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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
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Subject: Re: safer alternative for pfind and pget?
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Mateusz Guzik wrote this message on Sat, May 03, 2014 at 00:09 +0200:
> - pget which provides limited (mostly negative) filtering

as pget is undocumented, please make it part of this project to
document it..

> It is unclear to me if this should replace pget or a new function should
> be created and all pget callers converted over time (and selected pfind
> callers).

It really sounds like pget should add a few flags, and then maybe add
a few defines that mask all the flags that you want to make it easier...

If you documented this, then I think half of the questions would be
answered...

Thanks.

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