How about adding support for a dyadic form where the left-side argument is a glob pattern to be used when matching the file names?
http://linux.die.net/man/3/glob Regards, Elias On 8 July 2014 00:52, David Lamkins <dlamk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Jüergen. I'll change my code tonight to use the new calls. > > I like your solution to readdir() access. I fell asleep last night > pondering how best to do that. > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Juergen Sauermann < > juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> I have added rename (FILE_IO[27]), SVN 364. >> >> I didn't do readdir() because that would need you to opendir(), >> loop around readdir() and closedir(). >> >> Instead FILE_IO[28] returns the entire directory as a matrix in one go. >> >> Every row is a dirent struct but with a different order: >> >> * filename* >> * d_ino; /* inode number */* >> * d_off; /* not an offset; see NOTES */* >> * d_reclen; /* length of this record */* >> * d_type; /* type of file; not supported* >> >> The reason for the different order is that not all fields are present in >> every file system, >> so I thought I should put all non-optional fields before the optional >> field, making the columns >> of the result more portable. >> >> >> /// Jürgen >> >> >> >> >> >> On 07/07/2014 09:31 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote: >> >> There are two functions that I'd like to access via lib_file_io: >> readdir() and rename(). >> >> I'm currently implementing these via popen() through lib_file_io, but >> that seems inelegant... >> >> I have immediate application for these calls in the component file >> library. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the > Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. > Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an > utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life > forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think programming in Java > is a pretty neat idea." > > -- With apologies to Douglas Adams, who I like to think would have > appreciated this. > > > http://soundcloud.com/davidlamkins > http://reverbnation.com/lamkins > http://reverbnation.com/lcw > http://lamkins-guitar.com/ > http://lamkins.net/ > http://successful-lisp.com/ >
