ticket #2970 Add ftw.h to newlib

[Eshan Dhawan]

Also, Should look into ticket #3642 related to adding function prototypes
to wchar.h

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:11 PM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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