Re: Your gnulib patch

[Cong Wang]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 7:41 PM Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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).

I understand I need to add at least ->fts_dirp to FTSENT in glibc,
but this seems fine as long as we only append to FTSENT? Users
should only dereference those documented fields of this struct.
Or am I still missing anything here?

(I get the point that gnulib is different as it is not a library so users
have to recompile for each update.)

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

Thanks for your kind response!