Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4] bpftool: use only nftw for file tree parsing

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On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 14:50, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/21/20 4:48 AM, Tony Ambardar wrote:
> > The bpftool sources include code to walk file trees, but use multiple
> > frameworks to do so: nftw and fts. While nftw conforms to POSIX/SUSv3 and
> > is widely available, fts is not conformant and less common, especially on
> > non-glibc systems. The inconsistent framework usage hampers maintenance
> > and portability of bpftool, in particular for embedded systems.
> >
> > Standardize code usage by rewriting one fts-based function to use nftw and
> > clean up some related function warnings by extending use of "const char *"
> > arguments. This change helps in building bpftool against musl for OpenWrt.
> >
> > Also fix an unsafe call to dirname() by duplicating the string to pass,
> > since some implementations may directly alter it. The same approach is
> > used in libbpf.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Lgtm, applied, thanks!

Thank you, and much appreciation to Quentin for helpful review and feedback.

Best regards,
Tony



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