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Message-ID: <1320d9deaa1f9e6808a3aa795cb5adcb@mail.tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:49:03 +0000
From: Bernardo Pascoal Figueiredo
 <bernardopascoalfigueiredo@...nico.ulisboa.pt>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Implementation of GLOB_TILDE

Forgot the patch file.
On 2017-01-17 15:44, Bernardo Pascoal Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sending as attachment a a patch that implments the GLOB_TILDE 
> extension to
> the glob function.
> 
> This functions is helpful to compile some software that otherwise would 
> not
> compile(without patching) with musl like i3wm.
> 
> I tested the code(test file as attachment) and the results seem to be 
> correct.
> 
> I have a few questions though:
>  * How do I contribute to musl? Should I just send patches to this 
> mailing list
>    or should I make pull requests?
> 
>  * I defined GLOB_TILDE as 0x100, but I think this won't work on 
> architectures
>    that have sizeof(int) == 2, as the flags argument in glob is an int.
> 
>  * I think it's best to define GLOB_TILDE in glob.h inside a '#if
>    defined(_GNU_SOURCE) || defined(_BSD_SOURCE)' what do you think?
> 
>  * I had to copy strlcat and strlcpy to glob.c so I could use them. I 
> had to do
>    this because musl isn't compile as _GNU_SOURCE or _BSD_SOURCE so 
> string.h
>    doesn't expose these functions. How should I fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernardo Figueiredo

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