Re: Your gnulib patch

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:13 AM Cong Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello, Jim
>
> We found your gnulib patch
> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=47cb657e)
> quite useful for us, as we encountered a same issue with a few million
> files under one directory.
>
> Is it possible for you to integrate the patch to glibc too? Our
> project doesn't use gnulib at all, so it would benefit more people if
> you could integrate it to glibc. :) I understand that would bring you
> more work, if I have your permission, I can help on that too. Please
> let me know how you would like to proceed.

Hi Cong Wang,

Thanks for your interest and the offer to contribute.

If you'd like that functionality in glibc, note that it would have to
use different function names, because the gnulib version of fts uses a
different API (e.g., numerous struct changes were required to remove
limitations in the glibc version).

You are welcome to pursue adding it to glibc, of course.