#68606 libc6: glob(3) should be made optionally interruptible

Package:
libc6
Source:
glibc
Description:
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Submitter:
Date:
2005-07-18 03:10:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#68606#5
Date:
2000-08-05 13:11:36 UTC
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It would be very nice if the SHELL defines could be turned into an
if (interrupt_glob && *interrupt_glob) block where interrupt_glob is
an int *.
#68606#8
Date:
2001-01-05 18:54:07 UTC
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Could you ellaborate on this a bit more please? I'm not exactly sure
what you are requesting.

Thanks,
  Ben
#68606#11
Date:
2001-01-14 06:07:13 UTC
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The code surrounded by the SHELL ifdefs allow the function to be interrupted
by a signal while walking directory trees.  Since this is desirable to quite
a few applications that use glob(3) (such as ftp, the user may wish to press
CTRL-C to halt a search on a particularly large directory), it would be very
nice if this code was put into an if block rather than a set of ifdefs.