Re: GLOB_ONLYDIR not defined in glob.h

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 17 18:15, Kizito Porta Balanyà wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to compile monit in cygwin, but I get an error:
> 
> src/process/sysdep_UNKNOWN.c:218:34: error: ‘GLOB_ONLYDIR’ not
> declared (first use))
>    if ((rv = glob("/proc/[0-9]*", GLOB_ONLYDIR, NULL, &globbuf))) {
> 
> The function is:
>   if ((rv = glob("/proc/[0-9]*", GLOB_ONLYDIR, NULL, &globbuf))) {
>     LogError("system statistic error -- glob failed: %d (%s)\n", rv, 
> STRERROR);
>     return FALSE;
>   }
> 
> Do you know why GLOB_ONLYDIR is not defined in glob.h?

Yes, it's a GNU extension, not provided by the FreeBSD code used in
Cygwin.  Since GLOB_ONLYDIR is a hint only, the code must not rely on
the glob function actually only returning directories anyway.

As a workaround, add this to the code:

  #ifndef GLOB_ONLYDIR
  #define GLOB_ONLYDIR 0
  #endif


Corinna

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