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Re: Trap getdents bug.


From: Ulrich Drepper
Subject: Re: Trap getdents bug.
Date: 17 Jul 2002 12:06:24 -0700

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 12:15, Jerome de Vivie wrote:
> I
> think that the glibc should not impose it's own implementation and hide
> internal call to "LD_PRELOAD" facilities between "documented interface".
> Why not call directly "getdents" and "getdents64" symbols and made them
> global+weak instead of local "__xxx" ?

Because nobody must rely on any implementation details.  If you want to
handle getdents different intercept the calls to the functions which
would use this and replace them.  And now stop arguing, this will never
change.  Anybody who's trying to argue doesn't understand a bit about
the problems of ABI compatibility.

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