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Re: df and ls for root directories on Win9X
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:09:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: df and ls for root directories on Win9X
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 05:54:32PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >At 12:48 PM 5/25/2003 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >>>On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 06:34:23PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >>>> 2003-05-23 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> * autoload.cc (GetDiskFreeSpaceEx): Add.
> > >>>> * syscalls.cc (statfs): Call full_path.root_dir() instead of
> > >>>> rootdir(full_path). Use GetDiskFreeSpaceEx when available and
> > >>>> report space available in addition to free space.
> > >>>> * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fstat_by_name):
> > >>>> Do not call FindFirstFile for disk root directories.
> > >>>
> > >>>Applied.
> > >>
> > >>Um. I am still reviewing the fstat_by_name stuff. I will be making
> > >>changes to this.
> > >>
> > >I hope you find a more elegant way to determine when it's a root directory.
> >
> > The previous code obviously went out of its way to handle a special
> > case. It was not a "bug" that it filled out an array and changed "c:\"
> > to "c:\*".
> >
> > I'm away from my computer now so I can't easily check to see what you
> > did but it looks like you made the root directory always assume today's
> > date.
> >
> > I also had a problem with this:
> > + else if (pc->isdir () && strlen (*pc) <= strlen (pc->root_dir ()))
> >
> > Isn't the strlen check just a more expensive and less clear way of doing
> > a strcmp? i.e.,
> >
> > + else if (pc->isdir () && strcmp (*pc, pc->root_dir () == 0)
> >
> > ?
> >
> > cgf
>
> Wouldn't you need an stricmp in that case? Since the comparison is '<='
s/stricmp/strncmp/
> instead of '='?
> Igor
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