Re: lib/43310: dirent(5) standard compliance

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/43310; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/43310: dirent(5) standard compliance
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:49:19 +0000

 On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:05:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  |  Changing to the declaration glibc uses (with the zero-length array at
  >  |  the end) might be desirable; that usage is now blessed by the C
  >  |  standard. (This should probably also be done in the ffs code, but
  >  |  that's a separate problem.)
  >  
  >  The problem is that then readdir_r will need to do some ugly hack.
 
 ...true. N/M on that.
 
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