Re: libc/sys/rdos has DOS format files

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

On 11/21/2013 11:30 AM, Leif Ekblad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You can run dos2unix on them.

I am going to take this as permission to do this. :)

The changelog entry doesn't really wrap but it is committed now.

2013-11-21  Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>

        * libc/sys/rdos/chown.c, libc/sys/rdos/close.c,
libc/sys/rdos/execve.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/fork.c, libc/sys/rdos/fstat.c, libc/sys/rdos/getpid.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/gettod.c, libc/sys/rdos/isatty.c,
libc/sys/rdos/kill.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/link.c, libc/sys/rdos/lseek.c, libc/sys/rdos/open.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/rdos.h, libc/sys/rdos/read.c,
libc/sys/rdos/readlink.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/sbrk.c, libc/sys/rdos/stat.c, libc/sys/rdos/symlink.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/times.c, libc/sys/rdos/unlink.c, libc/sys/rdos/wait.c,
        libc/sys/rdos/write.c: Convert from DOS to UNIX CRLF.


> A general problem with the rdos target in newlib is that it is out-of-date 
> and no longer functional in newer releases of rdos.
> I was about to update the rdos files half a year ago, but then run into a 
> few problems and lack of time. I did get most of the
> changes in GCC done and commited.

It is hard to keep up. I know on RTEMS we have worked hard to
put a process and structure in place to encourage us to push
upstream in small, incremental patches.

> A problem was with the multitasking interface, which was not well-done in 
> newlib for supporting targets with a native thread interface not compatible 
> with Posix threads. Has this been modified so it is possible to provide a 
> thread-safe library without special names for reentrant functions using 
> TLS-support?

I will leave this to someone else. You may want to start a new thread
with a better subject.

> Regards,
> Leif Ekblad
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Sherrill" <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
> To: <newlib@sourceware.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 3:15 PM
> Subject: libc/sys/rdos has DOS format files
> 
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> A lot of files in this directory have CR/LF line terminators.
>>
>> Is this intentional or can I run dos2unix on them and commit
>> the result?
>>
>> -- 
>> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
>> joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
>> Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
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