From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: new flexable length directory access routines
Article-I.D.: unc.3783
Posted: Mon Aug  2 23:12:48 1982
Received: Tue Aug  3 03:49:47 1982


Those directory routines sure were fascinating...

Anyway, I have two comments, one technical and one legal:

	a) Seekdir should probably return its argument value or -1, the
	   way all other seek calls in the system do.  (Yes, I know you
	   shouldn't need it.)

	b) I *BEG* the Regents of the University of California to waive
	   their copyright and put those routines into the public domain;
	   they're *essential* to writing portable code.  There is already
	   enough trouble with different versions of UNIX; this incompatibility
	   is a major one without such simulator routines.  (If broadcasting
	   the code is intended as such a waiver, I still would prefer that
	   it be made explicit; commercial firms are not likely to take
	   chances on something like that.)


		--Steve Bellovin
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