Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:03:12 -0800 From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (forw) Re: readdir_r thread safe? Message-ID: <20000205150312.J73462@sturm.canonware.com> In-Reply-To: <20000205151627.W25520@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 03:16:28PM -0800 References: <20000205151627.W25520@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 03:16:28PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Ugh, I should have brought this up before the code freeze but... > > Maybe we could make 4.0 the transition point for adding locking > structures to FILE and DIR structures instead of the hackish > way it's done now (maintaining a seperate structure). > > Does anyone agree or have time for this? > > It would greatly simplify the code and actually fix the readdir_r > problem. Well, my personal opinion is that we shouldn't muck with this during the code freeze, but if there's agreement (and approval from Jordan) that it should happen before the 4.0 release, I'm willing to do the work. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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