Doug Gwyn's dirent code (Was: bash & the att3b1)
Andy S Poling
andy at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
Thu Aug 23 03:09:29 AEST 1990
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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