On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 05:01:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Alan Somers <[email protected]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> writes: > > > Tell that to the Rust developers. They have been repeatedly warned > > > against using readdir_r(3) for years, as far back as 2016. > > Have they? Looking at rust's github page, I see discussions about > > using readdir_r on Fuchsia and Linux, but nothing about BSD. > > If you look at these tickets, there are people pointing out that > readdir_r() doesn't work correctly even on platforms where it isn't > formally deprecated. The Rust developers chose to fix the Linux case > because it produced a link-time warning and ignored the rest. That's on > them. > > They also seem to be providing their own prototype for readdir_r(), > which suppresses the deprecation warning they should be getting on > FreeBSD 15, and turns the issue from a failure to compile into a failure > to link. That's also on them.
It doesn't really matter whose responsibility it is. If rust can't be compiled on FreeBSD after a FreeBSD change, then it's up to us to fix it. The purpose of FreeBSD, like any other useful OS, is to run the software that people want to run. +1 to Alan's request to back out the change for now. > > possibly with the aid of installing misc/compat14x > > That won't make any difference since readdir_r() is still in our libc. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] >
