Exporting functions back

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

Hi,

now that the VCS is functional again, could you make the modifications?

Do you want a patch, or would you prefer to choose the header names 
yourself?

Thanks,
Sébastien


On 12/29/2011 06:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> * bootp_strdup_realloc - used in the DHCP client. This means DHCP
>> cannot be used at all at the moment.
>> * rtems_shell_init_env - we use it with the telnet server to make the
>> shell environment reentrant (we modify the login function).
>> * rtems_shell_main_mv - there is no standard API for automatically
>> moving files and directories recursively and/or across filesystems.
>> Most UNIX applications use system() for this purpose instead of
>> painfully reinventing the wheel, which is more or less the equivalent
>> of calling rtems_shell_main_mv in RTEMS.
>
> Well, so far, these function did not have public prototypes.
> I.e. using them qualifies as API violation and "dirty coding".
>
>> Can we get those functions exported again?
>
> I don't have any problems in making these public (... should RTEMS VCS
> ever come up again ...).
>
>> (and even better, with
>> RTEMS-specific header files
> ACK, this would be the way to go ...
>
>> so we do not have to re define the
>> prototypes ourselves)
> ... and this is before mentioned API violation ;)
>
> Ralf
>