Re: [PATCH] Added FTW.H Methods

Joel Sherrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <CAF9ehCW9GHujePLSL7Ci0tiMykOrgq556fWQLNg=wT1xDi0ptw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:17 AM Corinna Vinschen via Newlib <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 13 03:08, Eshan dhawan via Newlib wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Eshan dhawan <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  newlib/configure.host         |   2 +-
> >  newlib/libc/include/ftw.h     |  64 ++++++++++++++
> >  newlib/libc/posix/Makefile.am |   2 +-
> >  newlib/libc/posix/ftw.c       |  36 ++++++++
> >  newlib/libc/posix/nftw.c      | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 newlib/libc/include/ftw.h
> >  create mode 100644 newlib/libc/posix/ftw.c
> >  create mode 100644 newlib/libc/posix/nftw.c
>
> Why do we need _FTW_ENABLE_?
>
> What do we need the foo64 variants for?  WHile newlib defines
> _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE for __linux__ and __RDOS__, it's not used
> anywhere else in newlib itself.
>
> Also, there's a ftw/nftw implementation in Cygwin already.  Did you
> check it for inclusion into newlib, or to drop the Cygwin version in
> favor of a new newlib versions?  We could at least share a common
> header, but then we will have to use the flag values already used in
> the Cygwin implementation for backward compatibility.
>

We went straight to *BSD for implementations and didn't look at Cygwin.

I've asked Eshan to replace the implementation with the Cygwin one.
Hopefully that's easy and allows one more piece of shared software.

--joel

>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
> --
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Maintainer
> Red Hat
>
>
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