Re: support dirent.d_type

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:37:59AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote:
>>I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin.
>>
>>fhandler_disk_file::readdir()
>>{
>>...
>> if (buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
>>   dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_DIR;
>> } else {
>>   dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_REG;
>> }
>>...
>>}
>
>So why not make it a patch, test it, and send it to the appropriate list
>with a ChangeLog entry?  For something this small you don't even need a
>copyright assignment.  See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>.

Actually, thanks but I don't think we want to go down this path.

Properly implementing this field would introduce the same problems as
properly implementing d_ino.  Doing this would mean adding too much
overhead to readdir.

cgf

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