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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-05-02 11:42:51 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-05-02 11:42:51 +0200
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misc: Add twalk_r function
The twalk function is very difficult to use in a multi-threaded
program because there is no way to pass external state to the
iterator function.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Major new features:
 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
   objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
 
+* The twalk_r function has been added.  It is similar to the existing
+  twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
+  to the callback function.
+
 * On Linux, the gettid function has been added.
 
 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an