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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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To: lode leroy <lode_leroy@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: support dirent.d_type
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin.
>
> fhandler_disk_file::readdir()
> {
> ...
>  if (buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
>    dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_DIR;
>  } else {
>    dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_REG;
>  }
> ...
> }

So why not make it a patch, test it, and send it to the appropriate list
with a ChangeLog entry?  For something this small you don't even need a
copyright assignment.  See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
	Igor
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