Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/11/22/02:55:22
When do you think you'll have time to tell me how you want the files
laid out for the daemon, so we can do that post-1.3.4 merge?
Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: /cygdrive improvements
> I've just made some changes to cygwin.
>
> I've added opendir, readdir, telldir, etc. methods to the fhandler
> class.
>
> I also implemented /cygdrive as a special "device" in cygwin.
Cygdrive
> inherits most of its methods from fhandler_disk_file except for the
opendir
> ones.
>
> I've implemented the directory handling methods for cygdrive so that
you
> can now do this:
>
> % ls /cygdrive
> a c d e
>
> This allows completion in shells like zsh.
>
> The only thing wrong with this currently is that zsh times out trying
to
> read the floppy drive the first time.
>
> This is probably not the most elegant way of doing things. We maybe
> should have another directory handling layer and yada, yada. If
you've
> been reading this mailing list for any length of time, you know all of
> the arguments.
>
> I just thought it would be fun to implement things this way and it
was.
> It wasn't even that ugly.
>
> Anyway, I'll probably let this percolate for a while and then release
> 1.3.6. I'm sure that I have screwed up something that needs some
> attention but, for now, I'm going to bed to dream of turkey.
>
> cgf
>
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