ticket #2970 Add ftw.h to newlib

[Eshan Dhawan]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:50 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:06 AM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> so the subtasks would consist of adding missing functions to stat.h ,
>> types.h mainly I suppose
>>
>
> What do you think is missing in those? My reading of the POSIX standard
> has is implying that
> <ftw.h> includes <sys/stat.h> to get st_mode and the stat structure.
>
Not much related to ftw.h but there are unsupported functions in sys/stat.h
which can be added
to Newlib

Also wanted to know which headers which aren't present in newlib or RTEMS
which could make my GSOC proposal more acceptable?

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> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/ftw.h.html
>
> The subtasks I referred to as the same for every time a new C Library or
> POSIX method
> is added to RTEMS or Newlib:
>
> + the code itself
> + test code
> + addition to documentation as needed
> + update to compliance tracking spreadsheet (usually I will do this)
>
>>
>> - Eshan
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:30 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03 AM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wanted to know the status of implementation of ftw.h in newlib
>>>> and the dependencies it requires?
>>>>
>>>
>>> FIrst hint is that the ticket is still open. :)
>>>
>>> The next is a way to check if it is part of the installed C Library.
>>> Wherever
>>> you installed the tools (TOOLS_PREFIX) for CPU-rtems5
>>>
>>> find TOOLS_PREFIX -name ftw.h
>>> CPU-rtems5-nm TOOLS_PREFIX/CPU-rtems5/lib/libc.a | grep ftw
>>>
>>> In this case, you will see it isn't there.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As it could be ported from FreeBSD since it lies under favourable
>>>> licence
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yep. And this would almost certainly need to be merged into the newlib C
>>> library
>>> with tests added to RTEMS.
>>>
>>> Documentation added to the POSIX Users Guide and the tracking spreadsheet
>>> updated.
>>>
>>> Just to list all the subtasks. :)
>>>
>>> --joel
>>>
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