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From: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: ls(1) on System V
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 18:42:17 EST
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In article <2116@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>I've converted lots of S5R2 programs to use the [dir] library....
>I'd vote for putting it into 1) the /usr/group standard, 2) the System V
>Interface Definition (which currently, bless its soul, does *not* commit
>to what directories look like when you open them), and therefore 3)
>System V.

I'll second that (although I doubt that I'll be second).  After all,
libld was added to standardize the interface to load modules; why not
a standard interface to directories?
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