Ronald Oussoren wrote: > A couple of lines down it says: > "The pointer returned by readdir() points to data which may be > overwritten by another call to readdir() on the same directory > stream. This data is not overwritten by another call to readdir() on > a different directory stream." > > This explicitly says that implementations cannot use a static dirent > structure.
Ah, right. I read over this several times, and still managed to miss that point. Thanks. >> Of course, the most natural implementation associates the storage >> for the result with the DIR*, so it's probably not a real problem... > > If this were a problem on some platform I'd expect it to be so > ancient that it doesn't offer readdir_r either. Sure - I would have just removed Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS on systems which don't have readdir_r. But this is now unnecessary. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
