Doug Gwyn's dirent code (Was: bash & the att3b1)

[Andy S Poling]

In article <33083 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>kehoe at scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) in <28707 at netnews.upenn.edu> writes
>:
[...]
>	>5. The linker could not find opendir(), readir() and creatdir().
>	>Neither could I.  Does anyone know how to get around this problem?
[...]
>If you want good stuff, get the PD "dirent" code from any archive site,
>courtesy of Doug Gwyn.  Works fine on the 3B1 (and greatly helped me to port
>much of the BSD "Tahoe" networking stuff to the 3B1).

This is not bashing (pleez pardon the pun :-) Doug Gwyn's work, but I have
occasionally run into problems where directories with a large number of
files appear to be empty when using Doug's dirent code.  

Aside from that little hitch, Thad is right: it is a wonderful porting tool.


-Andy

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