[beports] Re: glob and libdl and LibPak progress

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: beports@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 14:08:03 +0200

On 2008-05-08 at 06:18:01 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Looking through the LibPak and adding entries for them I came across
> glob, which seems to be a POSIX requirement.  Is this included in
> Haiku or will it be?
> http://www.bebits.com/app/2347
> Also there's libdl.so which seems to provide some other wrapper
> functions for dynamic linking:
> http://www.bebits.com/app/2917
> LibPak also lists pthreads but I only located an undone BeOS project for 
> that:
> http://www.bebits.com/app/1427
> Seems to me I read something about pthreads recently on Haiku?  Might
> be mistaken.
> I don't know much about any of these, just learning about most of this as I 
> go.

All of these are included in Haiku's libroot. The compliance for the dynamic 
loading is not as good as it should be, and I believe the same holds for 
pthreads, too. Though I haven't looked at the latter for a while and Axel 
worked on them recently.

CU, Ingo

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