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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: <fstab.h> / getfsent(3) and friends
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:57:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180325005724.GE1436@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c484703-6fc9-489e-1270-b75cca3225f4@adelielinux.org>

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 07:45:52PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
> Would a small module implementing <fstab.h> be accepted upstream into
> musl?  I looked on the mailing list and wiki and didn't see anyone
> asking this question before.
> 
> 
> This header and API are used by at least:
> 
> - filelight (disk space usage tracker)
> 
> - K3b (KDE disc ripper)
> 
> - KDELibs 3.x, used by TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment, light Qt DE)
> 
> - MythTV and XBMC (media center/players)
> 
> - Pegasus (scientific computation management system by USC)
> 
> 
> Since this is already implemented by glibc[1], FreeBSD[2], NetBSD[3],
> OpenBSD[4], Mac OS X[5], AIX[6], HP-UX[7], QNX[8], and
> others[9][10][11][12], all but TDE's fork of KDELibs 3 don't check for
> it in configure.  I would be more than happy to implement and maintain this.

Seems plausible that it would be reasonable but I haven't looked at
the specifics. How large would the implementation be? Are there ugly
issues with thread-safety/global state that make the apis hard to use
reasonably? Anything weird it has to hook into?

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-25  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-25  0:45 A. Wilcox
2018-03-25  0:57 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2018-03-25  7:24   ` Khem Raj
2018-09-10  2:30   ` A. Wilcox

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