Re: cvs: php4 / acinclude.m4

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > SS>> main() { > SS>> DIR *dir; > SS>> - struct dirent entry, *pentry; > SS>> + char entry[sizeof(struct dirent)+257]; > SS>> + struct dirent *pentry = (struct dirent *) &entry; > SS>> > SS>> dir = opendir("/"); > SS>> if (!dir) > > Actually, I wanted to do something different - make configure to check for > that NULL case and drop the HAVE_POSIX flag if NULL case doesn't work. I'm > attaching the patch that does it - please check it. The only problem is > that #undef HAVE_POSIX_READDIR_R doesn't really work - configure turns it > back to #define. Maybe I have to undefine it in configure itself? That was the method I had in mind when discussing this in pm. I started to dislike it, because it has only one advantage: You don't need to initialize the third argument to readdir_r(). The currently checked in method is quick and portable. Enough reasons for me to prefer it. - Sascha