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Re: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff)
- To: "Li-Kai Liu" <news at likai dot net>,"Ronald Landheer" <info at rlsystems dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:22:08 +1000
- References: <NFBBLOMHALONCDMPGBLFOEFICCAA.info@rlsystems.net> <3BAFBF02.4050809@likai.net>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Li-Kai Liu" <news@likai.net>
> however, files and file systems are two different concepts! fhandler
Corinna has already indicated that this is the desired end direction,
with one class hierarchy for fs's and one for files.
> apparently it is not the way it is right now in cygwin. :(
Exactly. However making the readdir and opendir calls use objects and
stop being hardcoded to win32 is a good step in the right direction.
> to code the way i want them to. i'll genuinely code this thing if I
know
> that people like my idea and so it won't end up being hated and
discarded.
It won't end up being hated and discarded :]. I strongly suggest a
one-step-at-a-time approach though: a series of small patches that make
specific changes to get from here to there. Biting off too much is a
common reason for architectural changes to fail.
Rob
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