discussion related to implementation of File descriptor functions in RTEMS

[Eshan Dhawan]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:03 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:17 AM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:01 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:57 PM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
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>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> As @Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhav.varodek at gmail.com> suggested I have also
>>>> added adding file descriptor functions to my GSOC project.
>>>> I went through the mailing list archives for more information.
>>>> RTEMS as its own file descriptor so the functions need to be
>>>> implemented from scratch.
>>>> I wanted to get more information related to it.
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>>> What's the set of functions you are proposing for those not tracking
>>> your draft proposal?
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>> Link:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-JOFUbFn6V1kViAGWsEGbVHL9MxlMyKP0BbZhEA1Rs/edit?usp=sharing
>> I haven't searched about the functions in the list yet. The list was made
>> by Vaibhav, last year and he told me that it could be added to proposal
>> this year as well.
>> I read the archives that these need to be written from scratch.
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> Maybe not. I found at least this implementation of renameat() which was
> implemented on top of existing calls:
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> https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/contrib/openbsm/bin/auditdistd/renameat.h
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> It should be in a C file but that shows it can be done. That directory has
> a lot of these methods.
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> NOTE: That list has fstat() while I am sure it should be fstatat.
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> The list has fstatat as well.
I will recheck the list and will run a search to confirm that list doesn't
contain any function that has been already implemented  :)

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> I would move these up the list since they look easy to port from that
> source. Convert them from .h to .c, and we can discuss adding them to
> newlib.
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> @Aditya Upadhyay <aadit0402 at gmail.com> told that need to be added to
RTEMS libbsd

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> --joel
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>>>> thanks
>>>> -Eshan
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