<<On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:11:39 -0500, Dan Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I started a cleanup of libc to make it thread-safe.
Just as a matter of information.... The seekdir/telldir interface was
debated recently by the Austin Group. The Open Group wanted to
include it as part of the XSI extension to 1003.1-200x; other people
were strongly opposed to its inclusion. I believe the final decision
was that it seekdir/telldir would not be included, because it is
impossible to implement over certain filesystems (e.g., SGI's XFS,
which uses a radically different data structure for directories).
-GAWollman
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