Re: GDir as DIR replacement - patch

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> writes:

> Hans Breuer writes:
>  > If the following patch is acceptable I would obviously 
>  > volunteer to write inline docs, a test app and remove all 
>  > the DIR occurences from 'downstream' libs and apps ported 
>  > to win32.
> 
> I'm for putting this (or something very close) in GLib, except maybe
> the g_dir_len() function, I am not sure about the usefulness of
> that. Should the functions be made MT-safe?

While there is a readdir_r() in some standards, would you ever
want to use the same DIR * or GDir in multiple threads? Doesn't
seem likely to me, so I don't think it's worth making people
free the results of each readdir().

Regards,
                                        Owen