Re: git: d549de769055 - main - libc: Remove readdir_r(3) [This broke building rust 1.88]

Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> writes:
> Only to mention that POSIX Issue 8 has posix_getdents() that
> gives application programmers a good tool for flexible buffer
> usage ("none to many" dirents in one go, as you need it), as well
> as lots of *stat*(2) avoidance possibilities.  This is a real
> improvement when available, and i hope the world will go this
> route, so that the only optional getdirentries() / getdents()
> / getdents64() / readdir()+stat() dances will come to an end in
> the future.

posix_getdents() is getdents() with an unused flag argument and
deliberately incompatible types and names.  I intend to implement it
eventually, but it adds nothing.

DES
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