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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:55:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
To:        Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject:   Re: Importing lukemftpd
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010724205538.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5lbsmaccai.fsf@assaris.sics.se>

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On 24-Jul-2001 Assar Westerlund wrote:
| Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes:
|> : I believe the plan is actually to do the rename in glob(3) to be
|> : compatible with the other *BSDs.  At least nobody objected when I
|> : proposed that.
|> 
|> Yes.  I thought you'd done that already... :-)
| 
| Actually not.  I wasn't sure how much backwards compatability we
| wanted, if we want to change RELENG_4 too (which I would prefer).
| Since we cannot have full backwards compatability, I propose applying
| this patch, keeping the old flag name for glob but not preserving the
| return code (since I cannot see any code actually using it).  Comments?

Why not just do away with the LIMITHIT return code and just use GLOB_NOSPACE
like NetBSD and OpenBSD does?

Mike

-- 
  Mike Heffner         <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
  Fredericksburg, VA       <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>


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