Hi! On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Your patch derives the properties of the filesystem from the existence of > a file with a certain name. That the wrong approach. The properties of > an extfs filesystem are encoded in the corresponding script. The correct way would be to ask the script if it needs to test the archive existence... > What if the archive disappears for some other reason? What if the archive > name is used in an "archiveless" filesystem and that file happens to > exist? Right. > The right solution would be to avoid mc_stat() in the "archiveless" > filesystems. OK, I'll prepare such patch for you. > By the way, please don't use C++ comments in C code. Oh, sorry about that. > Answering your other e-mail, that's an example how to split the drive name > from path using sed: Well, I know shell programming.... I just don't know how to get the path to fetch the drive name from. mc does not send me this to the script and you have said that there is a way. I wonder which way to go... regards STan _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel