Re: please add scandir, alphasort, versionsort

2008-09-16 Thread Karl Berry
Then, since these functions are pretty OS independent, you could take their glibc implementation, And, if we can keep the source file identical between libc and gnulib, then we can keep it automatically in sync. Though we are doing less and less of that these days :(. karl

Re: please add scandir, alphasort, versionsort

2008-09-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Can I help somehow? Eric is right: First, you need to submit a copyright assignment for your gnulib contributions to the FSF. Then, since these functions are pretty OS independent, you could take their glibc implementation, add a module description, an autoconf macr

Re: please add scandir, alphasort, versionsort

2008-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Michael Haubenwallner on 9/15/2008 4:11 AM: > Hi, > > As far as I can search, scandir and alphasort are candidates for the > next Single Unix Specification (post v3), and their usage is growing. > > On Solaris for example, they are avail

please add scandir, alphasort, versionsort

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hi, As far as I can search, scandir and alphasort are candidates for the next Single Unix Specification (post v3), and their usage is growing. On Solaris for example, they are available starting with Solaris 10, but I have the need to port some package to Solaris 8 and 9. So I'm wondering if the