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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:14:33 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fts_open() (was: Re: Patch to restore WARNS feature)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106141112550.72020-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106131516.LAA02178@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:28:29 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
> 
> > 3. Provide an alternative to qsort() that takes an comparison function
> >    that takes an additional function pointer arg (use this arg to avoid
> >    the global in (1)).
> 
> Actually, doing this would solve a number of similar problems, and it
> doesn't look to be too difficult to do.  I would make the additional
> argument a `void *'; fts's comparison trampoline function could use
> this as a `FTS *' to look up the comparison function.  (I think this
> is more general than passing any kind of function pointer.)

Good idea.

Bruce


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