The following reply was made to PR lib/24324; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
To: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org,
	NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 00:04:06 +0930

 On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:40:41AM -0400, Andreas Wrede wrote:
 > 
 > Is there any technical reason why these patches have not been  
 > committed?
 
 About the only think I can see that would cause a bit of a pause is
 the fact that you changed the calling arguments in telldir() by
 removing "const", this would require a bump in the version number of
 libc to prevent binaries linked with old libc versions getting the new
 API.  I believe that his would be a bump in the major version of libs
 which is not done lightly.
 
 > Is there a better way to solve the problem?
 > 
 
 What you have done looks fine to me.
 
 -- 
 Brett Lymn