Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/23/19:47:57
Hello Rober /et al/
>> After the overwhelming display of interest for my last mail on this
>> subject (which had gone completely unnoticed as far as I can tell), I
> I missed it - cannot even recall it :].
As did the rest of the world, I guess.. ;)
>> The patch I'm attaching is against the source 'ls.c' as found in
>> fileutils-4.1-1. It introduces three methods, of which one is called:
>> ls-cygwin-loop(). It is called whenever needed.
>> Note it only shows you that cygdrive exists. As there is no "magic
>> dir" filetype, and it's not a real directory, I'm not showing it as
>> one. My patch only does anything when there *is* no real directory -
>> if it comes through a stat() call, it is not handled.
> You've hit it on the button. stat() is what you need to patch, not ls.
(other mail)
> Sorry, a little more detail is needed, it's stat() + opendir() +
> readdir() IIRC that need altering.
You do recall correctly :)
In fact, you're right: the only thing is I was patching ls, but come to
think of it, the cygdrive magic dir (and any other magic dir) should
just come through a stat() call correctly, and opendir() and readdir()
should handle it correctly.
As it's better to grab a bug by the guts than just pull its antenna's
off, I'm back to the bug hunt (got the hat, the net and everything :)
I just have a question about the stat() implementation: there seem to be
a lot of them (different ones for different systems, ofcourse). I should
probably take the one from go32? (looks very DJGPP-ish to me, but that
could just be me).
Same question (and same assumed probable answer) for opendir() and
readdir()?
The implementations I'm referring to here are in newlib/libc/sys/go32
The reason I think it might be these is because they seem to be DOS
implementations, and the cygwin directory (meaning
newlib/libc/sys/cygwin) doesn't contain any implementations.
Building and examining the makefiles takes a rather long time, and as
you - or other people on the list - probably know where these functions
live by heart, it's a lot easier to just ask..
Greetz & Thanx!
Ronald
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