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Re: The dirent struct


On Aug  6 13:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:39:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug  6 10:51, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >> On 6 August 2010 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > On Aug ??6 09:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:33:41AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >> >> >I assume d_fileno and d_reclen may be part of __d_unused1 or
> >> >> >__d_internal1? ??I'd appreciate some help here, since I'm not sure what
> >> >> >to do at this point.
> >> >>
> >> >> No, they are not part of either of those fields. ??If they were
> >> >> they would be exposed.
> >> >>
> >> >> They simply are not implemented.
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> 
> Huh.  I thought the d_fileno actually stood for the file handle of the
> opened directory.

The Linux headers suggest that it was an old BSD name.


Corinna

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