Hello Alan, On Friday, July 23, 2010, 5:16:48 PM, you wrote:
> On Friday, 07/23/2010 at 04:56 EDT, Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca> > wrote: >> I still have no idea about SFS files (will have to spend some time >> reading the online docs). Support for those will likely come later >> (and will certainly need assistance for testing, as we don't use >> them). > To the extent that SFS directories are usually accessed as a filemode, you > have some support already. The more powerful capability is to handle SFS > directory contents *without* using a filemode. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott So the bottom line is that handling the full SFS naming would be useful to some, but having just the CMD-native and BFS support would cover the majority of user requirements. Doing that last piece to cover SFS directories will depend to how well SFS access works when using the zVM C compiler/runtime. If it's simply a bit of parsing code with clearly defined rules followed by a parm or two on fopen() it is do-able. Al
