On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:37:59AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote: >>I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin. >> >>fhandler_disk_file::readdir() >>{ >>... >> if (buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) { >> dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_DIR; >> } else { >> dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_REG; >> } >>... >>} > >So why not make it a patch, test it, and send it to the appropriate list >with a ChangeLog entry? For something this small you don't even need a >copyright assignment. See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.
Actually, thanks but I don't think we want to go down this path. Properly implementing this field would introduce the same problems as properly implementing d_ino. Doing this would mean adding too much overhead to readdir. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/