On 2 June 2016 at 09:51, Greg Kurz <gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > The readdir_r() function has a broken design and should not be used anymore. > It is expected to be obsoleted in a future version of POSIX.1: > > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696#c2857 > > Glibc has already announced that 2.24 (scheduled for August 2016) will > deprecates readdir_r() and encourages people to use readdir() with > external synchronization instead.
> Since POSIX.1 will require readdir() to be thread-safe when employed on > different directory streams, and glibc already does that, the choice > was made to have per-directory locking. AIUI the argument is that all sensible implementations of readdir() already provide the thread-safety guarantees POSIX is going to specify, but have you tested this on one of the BSDs or OSX? (and/or checked their current readdir implementation...) thanks -- PMM
