From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/14444 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ismael Luceno Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] glob: implement GLOB_TILDE Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:25:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20190724172524.GA4634@pirotess.home> References: <20190723183354.31633-1-ismael@iodev.co.uk> <20190723200708.GA25787@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20190724071522.GA24370@pirotess.home> <20190724130034.GC1506@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="75283"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-14460-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jul 24 19:25:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hqL1I-000JSO-MJ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21672 invoked by uid 550); 24 Jul 2019 17:25:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 21650 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2019 17:25:37 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190724130034.GC1506@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:14444 Archived-At: On 24/Jul/2019 09:00, Rich Felker wrote: <...> > To clarify, the reason to avoid doing this unless there's a really > strong motivation is to avoid cross-component coupling. If for example > someone needed to change the signature of __getpw_a as part of changes > in the pwd implementation, they'd have to figure out how glob is using > it and how to adapt glob to the new change, rather than just focusing > on the subsystem they're working on and familiar with. By using public > interfaces, you avoid that. Good point.