readdir changes

[Roland McGrath]

> Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> 
> > But you did make an interface change that I don't like.  No addition of a
> > public function to the API counts as "an optimization, nothing severe".
> 
> I haven't added a public function.   The __getdents function is private.

Oops, sorry.  I misread the include/dirent.h log entry as being for
dirent/dirent.h.

> > No existing application expects getdents to be defined by glibc, so
> > there is no such motivation for having it.
> 
> This is something we would suspect but we don't know.  I don't want to
> take a chance and remove it.

You are talking about getdirentries.  Well I am not afraid to break it for
the Hurd, so I will.