Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:55:30 -0400 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fts_open() (was: Re: Patch to restore WARNS feature) Message-ID: <20010613115530.Y1832@superconductor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <200106131551.LAA02550@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:51:07AM -0400 References: <20010613153416.B21292@sunbay.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106132318410.67996-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200106131516.LAA02178@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010613182157.A12432@sunbay.com> <200106131551.LAA02550@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [010613 11:51] wrote: > <<On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:21:57 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > > > How should we call this function? > > (I'll implement this tomorrow.) > > I was would call it `qsort_with_arg' or something similar. There is a > namespace issue here; <stdlib.h> reserves very little namespace for > the implementation, so anything we add will have to be hidden from > strictly-compliant applications. If we don't want to make it a public > interface, __qsort would be best (and is probably the choice of least > resistance). Why not do something like the rpc code does? Check if threaded, if so cons up a thread specific key otherwise use a global. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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