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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Ronald Landheer" <info AT rlsystems DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:27:51 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>


>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ronald Landheer" <info AT rlsystems DOT net>
> > To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:04 AM
> > Subject: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff)
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 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 :].
>
> > have patched up the patch I sent earlier to take care of a lacking
> > feature.
> > Much of my original mail is still valid, so I'm re-posting:
> >
> > -- BEGIN RE-POST --
> > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:11:52PM -0300, salvador wrote:
> > >> 1) "ls -la /" doesn't show any cygdrive directory. Note it could
> > >> be solved in the same way UNIX solves the /proc stuff, just
> mounting
> > >> over an existent directory a fake one.
> > >> 2) "ls -la /cygdrive" doesn't work.
> > > Correct.
> > > If you'd like to correct this, patches will be, as always,
> > > gratefully accepted.
> > I saw this, it itched me, so I'm attaching a patch :)
> >
> > 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.
>
> I stopped reading here... but if you patch stat() I promise to read
> further.
>

Sorry, a little more detail is needed, it's stat() + opendir() +
readdir() IIRC that need altering.

Rob


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