[Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>] libc/1068: [glibc] Possible erroneous return code from Linux __getdirentries
Jamie Lokier
jamie.lokier@cern.ch
Wed Apr 7 08:06:00 GMT 1999
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Jamie, why are you calling __getdirentries? The symbol has a double
> underscore in front of it and therefore it is a glibc internal symbol
> that should not be used outside glibc itself.
I'm not, I'm calling getdirentries which is an alias.
I wrote __getdirentries in the bug report because that's
the name of the function I was reading.
Actually in the end I decided to call getdents directly on Linux because
it is noticably faster :)
-- Jamie
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