Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Fwd: Per thread open(), stat(), rename() and 
so  on, and *at() API
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> What is the purpose of the change? Wouldn't it be easier to just to
> make a sweep of the codebase using an awk script and replace the
> functions with the new functions, instead of adding yet another
> #define for standard filesystem calls? I think the current number of
> cpp redirects for such calls has reached a number of nesting levels
> which has become unsustainable.
> 
> Lionel
> 
> 

This would not allow the code to work on systems that don't support the
@ functions.

Also, people who have added builtins would have to change their code
as well.

Our solution will make them functions not macros.

David Korn
d...@research.att.com
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