Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
>> as far as I can see, no one even uses xreadlink any more, so it's not urgent.
>
> The 'relocatable' facility uses xreadlink.
>
>> However, your point about the "a" vs. "m" prefix is valid,
>> and I've just renamed mreadlink-with-size.
>
> Th
Hello Jim,
> as far as I can see, no one even uses xreadlink any more, so it's not urgent.
The 'relocatable' facility uses xreadlink.
> However, your point about the "a" vs. "m" prefix is valid,
> and I've just renamed mreadlink-with-size.
Thanks. I've got an 'areadlink' module ready now, but I
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I did most of this weeks ago and just noticed I never checked it in.
>> Ok with you, Bruno?
>
> I'll make up my mind on it once you have put an 'mreadlink' module into
> gnulib. I don't see such a module in gnulib, nor in coreutils. Remember
Ha! Good poi
Hi Jim,
> I did most of this weeks ago and just noticed I never checked it in.
> Ok with you, Bruno?
I'll make up my mind on it once you have put an 'mreadlink' module into
gnulib. I don't see such a module in gnulib, nor in coreutils. Remember
that the difference between xreadlink_with_size and
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And here's the accompanying coreutils patch. The call in src/readlink.c
> is actually better served with the 1-argument xreadlink(), since memcopying
> a small string is typically faster than a memory allocation of 1 KB.
>
> 2007-02-28 Bruno Haible <[EMA
And here's the accompanying coreutils patch. The call in src/readlink.c
is actually better served with the 1-argument xreadlink(), since memcopying
a small string is typically faster than a memory allocation of 1 KB.
2007-02-28 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_
Jim Meyering wrote:
> I like (a), but would prefer a different name, e.g.,
> xreadlink_with_hint
> xreadlink_with_size
> xreadlink_size_hint
> xreadlink_length_hint
> because the hint needn't come from stat/st_size,
>
> or even just
> xreadlink_hint
> or, shortest of all ("2", for two pa
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What can we do in gnulib?
>
> (a) Have 2 xreadlink like functions. Since the one without prior stat is more
> natural, I would propose to rename the coreutils one, with the 'size'
> argument, to 'xreadlink_after_stat'.
>
> Or
>
> (b) Merge the two f
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- modules/xreadlink 12 Aug 2005 12:21:44 - 1.7
> +++ modules/xreadlink 2 Oct 2005 23:37:04 -
> @@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ ssize_t
> configure.ac:
> gl_XREADLINK
>
> -Makefile.am:
> -lib_SOURCES += xreadlink.h xreadlink.c
> -
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