On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > In the FAQ of FreeBSD 2.X, 13.12. Alternative layout policies for > directories, there is the following sentence: > > Most filesystems are created from archives that were created by a depth > first search (aka ftw). > > What does ftw stand for (My guess is File Tree Walk)? Can anyone give me > examples of programs that create archives from a file tree in a depth > first way? Do these programs rebuild the file tree from archive exactly as > they were created? >
I have just found that ftw does stand for File Tree Walk and there is a C library routine named ftw() (XPG4 standard) in AIX and HP-UX. However, I can not find the same routine in FreeBSD manual pages. Maybe it is not supported by FreeBSD. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
