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Message-ID: <20180325005724.GE1436@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:57:24 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: <fstab.h> / getfsent(3) and friends
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 07:45:52PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
> Would a small module implementing <fstab.h> be accepted upstream into
> musl? I looked on the mailing list and wiki and didn't see anyone
> asking this question before.
>
>
> This header and API are used by at least:
>
> - filelight (disk space usage tracker)
>
> - K3b (KDE disc ripper)
>
> - KDELibs 3.x, used by TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment, light Qt DE)
>
> - MythTV and XBMC (media center/players)
>
> - Pegasus (scientific computation management system by USC)
>
>
> Since this is already implemented by glibc[1], FreeBSD[2], NetBSD[3],
> OpenBSD[4], Mac OS X[5], AIX[6], HP-UX[7], QNX[8], and
> others[9][10][11][12], all but TDE's fork of KDELibs 3 don't check for
> it in configure. I would be more than happy to implement and maintain this.
Seems plausible that it would be reasonable but I haven't looked at
the specifics. How large would the implementation be? Are there ugly
issues with thread-safety/global state that make the apis hard to use
reasonably? Anything weird it has to hook into?
Rich
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