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Re: [Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>] libc/1068: [glibc] Possible erroneous return code from Linux __getdirentries
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>, aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
- Subject: Re: [Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>] libc/1068: [glibc] Possible erroneous return code from Linux __getdirentries
- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:06:45 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- References: <u890c4br8f.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> <199904071231.OAA13998@landau.wins.uva.nl>
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Jamie, why are you calling __getdirentries? The symbol has a double
> underscore in front of it and therefore it is a glibc internal symbol
> that should not be used outside glibc itself.
I'm not, I'm calling getdirentries which is an alias.
I wrote __getdirentries in the bug report because that's
the name of the function I was reading.
Actually in the end I decided to call getdents directly on Linux because
it is noticably faster :)
-- Jamie