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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix readdir_r with long file names
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:44:10 +0100
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On 03/02/2016 12:25 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

>> And at the cost of
>> changing sizeof (struct dirent), which can't be a good thing.
> 
> Any program that depends on sizeof (struct dirent) is broken already, so
> this isn't that worrisome.

Just to be clear, you looked at the wrong struct dirent definition for
GNU/Linux, there is a sysdeps override.

Right now, most programs relying on sizeof (struct dirent) work well in
almost all cases.  We really don't want to break that.  There appears to
be an overlap between these programs and users of readdir_r, so once we
remove that from the API, we should have better story for struct dirent
declarators as well.

Florian
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