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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:26:39 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Moving _invent_inode() to a libc/*.h header file
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Hello.

The /dev/zero and /dev/full code needs to use _invent_inode() from
src/libc/posix/sys/stat/xstat.c, to ensure that stat() or fstat() on
either of these devices returns a unique inode. Currently I have a
declaration in src/libc/fsext/fse_zero.c for the function, but I want to
use a header. Now I could use a line like:

    #include "../sys/stat/xstat.h"

but these sort of includes always give me a bad feeling. I'd much rather
do:

    #include <libc/something.h>

I'm not proposing to make src/libc/posix/sys/stat/xstat.h a header, but
perhaps there should be a header of things useful to file system
extensions - e.g. libc/fsext.h. What do you think?

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
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