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Re: Decouple glob from gnulib?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:12:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Decouple glob from gnulib?
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On 03/30/2016 09:49 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> gnulib switched to GPLv3 for its glob implementation a while back, so
> straight imports are out of the question.
>
> I would like to remove Amiga (not m68k, the operating system) and VMS
> support to simplify maintenance, and remove conditional compilation as
> far as possible. (Sadly, Hurd doesn't have d_type, but at least there
> is d_ino.)
Hurd has d_type as well. FreeBSD, too
posix/tst-gnuglob fails if I pretend I do not have d_type because the
virtual file system implementation is incorrect. It's safe to assume
that the non-d_type case is completely untested.
Yet another reason to decouple glob, I think.
Florian