Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/gen
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/19/2006 09:18:54
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> | > Modified Files:
>> | > 	src/lib/libc/gen: directory.3
>> | >
>> | > Log Message:
>> | > Explicitly mention that telldir values are only valid for the lifetime of
>> | > the DIR pointer. Pointed out by Klaus Klein.
>> |
>> | POSIX (or at least the opengroup website) allows them to be trashed
>> | by rewinddir() as well.
>>
>> Thanks. I guess we are not trashing them now, so I will not
>> explicitly mention this.
>
> We should so people don't write code that assumes they have continuing
> validity.

Should API changes like this be mentioned in src/doc/CHANGES?


  - Hubert