[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] COM32: Add stub functions for directories
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 28 22:27:11 PDT 2008
Keith Schincke wrote:
> Hey Gene,
>
> Are you going to be mostly POSIX with the way your functions work?
> Are you going to add mkdir(), rmdir(), rewinddir() and fchdir()?
> What file systems are you wanting to support? FAT or ext2 also?
> opendir() can be quickly written with a statically sized open DIR* handle
> table.
>
Well, ultimately you need to push this into the filesystem drivers.
I really dislike the idea of write operations; it's way too easy to
trash filesystems when encountering semi-broken firmware.
-hpa
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