Re: fflagstostr(3) / strtofflags(3)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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<1a69a9d80812260846p268b43c1o5766c8719290bcf4%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Luke Mewburn <lukem%netbsd.org@localhost> 
>wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:44:45AM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>  | I'd like to import FreeBSD[0]'s fflagstostr(3) / strtofflags(3)
>>  | function into libc. The files are available there:
>>  |
>>  | ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/alc/libc/
>>  |
>>  | and the attached patch should be enough to register everything. I hope
>>  | I didn't forgot anything. I'm not sure however if prototypes in
>>  | `unistd.h' are well placed.
>>  |
>>  | Is there any objections about this ?
>>
>> How does this compare with flags_to_string(3) that
>> is already present in libutil ?
>>
>they're the same, I didn't knew about these function.
>
>By looking closer, the code in libutil is almost the same as found in
>4.4Lite. It is however way bigger than the FreeBSD code:
>
>% size libc/gen/strtofflags.o libutil/stat_flags.o
>  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   706     168       0     874     36a libc/gen/strtofflags.o
>  3785       0       0    3785     ec9 libutil/stat_flags.o
>
stat_flags.o has bot strtofflags and fflagstostr.

christos