Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/06/14:52:17
On Aug 6 20:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
Actually it's not old at all. BSD still uses d_fileno for the name of
this structure member in sys/dirent.h and d_ino is just a define in
dirent.h.
Corinna
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