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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: C on Directory
Message-ID: <11410@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 21:32:56 GMT
References: <21231@adm.BRL.MIL> <2557@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2557@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Open/Read/Close Dir could be implemented as macros to open a file, read it with
>>this structure, and close it.
>They already have been, but as subroutines, not macros.  Volume 9 of the
>"comp.sources.unix" archive has "gwyn-dir-lib", which is an
>implementation of the standard POSIX directory-access routines ...

Thanks, but anybody who wants this package should get it from me,
not the archive, because the archive version has a couple of bugs.
(14-character file names on original UNIX filesystems are handled
wrong, also closedir() may be using storage that was free()d).