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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: seekdir & telldir in 2.5 libc source
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Date: 5 May 91 09:12:52 GMT
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paulr@fai.UUCP (Paul Rasmussen) writes:


>We are working on porting Mach 2.5 to new Fujitsu hardware.  In the libc
>source that is distributed with Mach 2.5, if "CMU" is defined, there is
>code purposely inserted to make "seekdir" and "telldir" not work and
>huge warnings of the form "Don't use telldir under MACH !!!".  We are
>assuming we should be building our library with "CMU" defined.  Is this
>wrong?  If not, what is wrong with using seekdir and telldir under MACH?
>Some BSD utilities (du and tar are the ones we have noticed so far) make
>calls to telldir and seekdir so we can't build the BSD versions of these
>with our current libc.  Does CMU have it's own version of these utilities?
>If so, they aren't included in the 2.5 vax or rt source trees we have.  Any
>information on this would be appreciated.

  For some reason, we don't even have it in libc.... But you you do get any
info, send me a copy. Thanx.

-e.b.

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