On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:35:45 +0200 "Michael Fritscher" <mich...@fritscher.net> wrote:
> Good day, > Hi! > only a short announcement: Sorry for the very long delay :-( But I'm > working on this again. The biggest issue seems to be the *at stuff. I'll > try to workaround this via getting the directories' path from the file > descriptor with the /proc (as it is already done in the 9pfs_utils) - > luckily,the mingw environment emulates the /proc. If this doesn't work > I've another idea (the file descriptors needs to be "registered" with the > path (and saved in a sparse vector or map with the fd as key and the path > as value). The "big" solution would be to write a 9p_local_windows.c from > scratch, but I would like to avoid it. > > Additionally, I changed my approach: Instead of one big patch with > everything in it, I split it into 2 patch series with several patches: > I'd prefer to have a single series with all the patches because... > * The first one only fixes the build via adding #ifdefs, creating stubs > in os-win32.h etc. and introduces no regressions. Status: Ready in my > local repo: It compiles fine with enabled 9pfs and works. If 9pfs is > tried to use there is a clean error message that the fsdev couldn't be > initialized - as expected. > * The second one actually get 9pfs working. This involves mostly > implementing the *at functions and a few tiny things (O_BINARY and so > on) Status: Not started yet (will be at the next weekend I hope), but is > a combination of parts of the the old patch + the implementation of the > *at functions. > > My hope is that the first series could be merged independently from the > second. Meanings? If so I'll clean up the first patch series a bit ... I don't want to merge a bunch of code before I'm 100% sure the 9pfs support on win32 is viable. Cheers, -- Greg > (History cleaning) and send it to the list. > > Best regards, > Michael Fritscher > -- Gregory Kurz kurzg...@fr.ibm.com gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Software Engineer @ IBM/LTC http://www.ibm.com Tel 33-5-6218-1607 "Anarchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself." Alan Moore.