Re: find (and friends) bug?

[Tom Lord]

   From: address@hidden (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
   Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

   > I note one thing that's going to make emacs really happy:

   I think someone didn't understand the point of re_search_2...

Or just presumed that Emacs would use it's own code and that other
programs probably don't care about the performance of that function.
I'd bet that's a safe bet.

Still, it'd be better to leave that function out and force link errors
rather than provide a version that silently thwarts reasonable
performance expectations.  And anyway, having lots of non-standard
names exported from the libc on a platform where lots of relatively
inexperienced programmers are working, while very GNUish, is not my
favorite feature of glibc.

-t