Re: [musl] fts.h

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 01:54:41PM -0500, enh wrote:
> > https://wiki.musl-libc.org/faq says "If glibc bug 15838 is fixed by
> > adding an fts64 interface in glibc, we could consider supporting it
> > with a matching ABI in musl, but it seems more likely that glibc will
> > just deprecate this interface", but that bug _was_ fixed in 2015 for
> > glibc 2.23...
>
> I wonder when that text was written. While we could certainly consider
> it, lack of any apparent need so far suggests that it wouldn't meet
> the modern criteria for inclusion in musl.
>
> The main motivation I could potentially see flipping this is if there
> are a significant number of programs shipping their own (e.g. gnulib?)
> versions of fts, that would save significant code-duplication disk
> space (or get better behavior of some sort) if using a shared copy in
> libc.

In yocto, we use the fts library https://github.com/pullmoll/musl-fts
and checked core layer and meta-openembedded layer which is 3000+ packages
following 8 are depending on it explicitly.
pmdk, fluentbit, libabigail, dracut, overlayfs-tools, libcgroup, ltp elfutils

>
> Rich