From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1674 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Todo for release? Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:44:42 -0400 Message-ID: <20120822224442.GI27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120813185329.GA20024@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120822185709.GG27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1947207.xjPR6uPfRS@main.pennware.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345675400 31252 80.91.229.3 (22 Aug 2012 22:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:43:20 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1675-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Aug 23 00:43:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4Jdp-0005cD-6U for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:43:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16024 invoked by uid 550); 22 Aug 2012 22:43:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 16016 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2012 22:43:11 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1947207.xjPR6uPfRS@main.pennware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1674 Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:24:13PM -0500, Richard Pennington wrote: > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 02:57:09 PM Rich Felker wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Very helpful would be support for fts.h in musl: > > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/fts.3.html > > > > Can these functions be implemented purely as library functionality, > > without any hooks into libc internals? I was thinking it might be nice > > to isolate all such code into a single subtree in musl, so that folks > > wanting to use it outside musl (either directly in application source > > trees, or in libraries) could easily find and use it. > > > > Of course there's also the option of putting such code in a separate > > library outside of libc (i.e. not including it in libc) which some > > people might prefer, but if it's small and historically in libcs and > > doesn't create maintenance burden, I'm not opposed to having it in > > libc.. > > > > Rich > > I used the NetBSD version and it built with musl just fine with no internal > stuff, as I recall. > > http://ellcc.org/viewvc/svn/ellcc/trunk/libecc/src/musl/src/bsd/ How big is it? I looked at it casually earlier today and didn't see anything horribly offensive in the code; it looks to even get allocation failure error cases right. Rich