At 04:44 PM 11/19/2003, Geoffrey Young wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >>It looks ok, but I think my objection was that everything else in finfo is >>authoritative. This field might be mis-capitalized (on case-insensitive >>platforms), unrooted, or whatever. >>Patch committed, but I think we need to call this out in documentation. > >ok, something similar to the comments you made across all platforms, at least, >then? > >btw, I know we talked about it, but now I forget what your opinion was on >creating/updating one of the valid bits for fname - whether to create a new >mask and add it or not across the board.
Actually, NULL means it isn't there. The question comes down to is it valid. Since we sort of agree that this info doesn't come out of getfileinfo or stat, it makes sense not to create a valid bit. Bill
