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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The 1001 Paths
Message-ID: <838@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 22:17:20 GMT
References: <4587@garfield.UUCP> <5489@well.UUCP> <850@nuchat.UUCP> <17904@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: It mustn't return the same name twice

In article <17904@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
> There could be some wierdness in that path: could return some names
> twice in an ExNext stream (e.g. ram:dir and sys:c/dir), but I can't
> envision it being a problem in practice.

You'd have to make sure this didn't happen.  That would violate the
model of it being a virtual directory of the files in the constituent
directories.  It wouldn't be TOO hard, though, to keep a hash table of
the names returned so far, and supress returning files with the same
name again.  This might be a bit tricky, I don't know the
implementation details of ExNext and devices.

And thank you for your support.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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