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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: fts_open() (was: Re: Patch to restore WARNS feature)
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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.

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