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Re: The dirent struct


On 6 August 2010 12:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug ?6 10:51, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> On 6 August 2010 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > And they don't have to. ?Per POSIX, only d_ino and d_name can be
>> > expected by a portable application(*).
>>
>> Fair enough, thankfully they are don't seem to be used by the code, so
>> I added an '#ifndef __CYGWIN__' around them and have managed to get by
>> this.
>
> Btw., d_fileno is just another old name for d_ino. ?The Linux headers
> defines it thus as `#define d_fileno d_ino'. ?We can do the same in
> Cygwin. ?Maybe that minimizes some porting effort.

Thank you for the tip about d_fileno.  I've left it within the
__CYGWIN__ guard for now and have successfully compiled rtorrent after
a couple of other minor patches.  I plan on testing rtorrent out when
I get home this evening and all going well issue an ITP.

Cheers!

Chris

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