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Re: find (and friends) bug?


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: find (and friends) bug?
Date: 04 Mar 2002 09:34:36 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> Or just presumed that Emacs would use it's own code and that other
> programs probably don't care about the performance of that function.
> I'd bet that's a safe bet.

No, it should be implemented right--even better.

> Still, it'd be better to leave that function out and force link errors
> rather than provide a version that silently thwarts reasonable
> performance expectations.  And anyway, having lots of non-standard
> names exported from the libc on a platform where lots of relatively
> inexperienced programmers are working, while very GNUish, is not my
> favorite feature of glibc.

Oh, who really cares; it's easy to say not to export them.



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