On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:33:06 +0100 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> 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...) > No I haven't because "VirtFS is supported only on Linux" at the moment. But thanks for raising the flag: it reminds me that there's ongoing work to support VirtFS on win32 hosts and I should also Cc Michael Fritscher. Thanks ! -- Greg > thanks > -- PMM >
