Two new ways to read a file quickly

Posted Mar 17, 2020 15:45 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Two new ways to read a file quickly

This will break a lot of software through name clashes once it hits glibc ((or, if namespaces exclude it by default, through misbinding of the symbol to the one in glibc).

readfile is a commonly used C identifier: Debian codesearch reveals 143 pages of broken packages, nearly all of which appear to be legitimate uses of this identifier in actual C code (though some is in C++ which is presumably safer).