[ksh93-integration-discuss] Contract for bart(1M) to use libast::fts?

[Roland Mainz]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
>  On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:31:19 -0400 Will Young wrote:
[snip]
>  >     It does not looks like solaris' libc has anything appropriate, but I
>  > see that libast includes ftwalk(3) and beneath that is what looks like a
>  > general purpose fts(3) implementation which is what is really needed.
>  > (libast is ksh93 project private in PSARC/2006/550)
>
>  >     I'd like to use fts_open(), fts_read(), etc in my prototype and ask
>  > our ARC sponsor to setup a contract for these interfaces if that is
>  > agreeable to members of the ksh93 project?
>
>  fts has been well burned in, so I don't see any problems from our side

Just asking to be sure: |fts_open()|/|fts_read()|/etc. do not write to
any global variables within libast and is supposed to be threadsafe
assuming each thread manages it's own |FTS *| handle, right ?

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Roland

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