[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] COM32: Add stub functions for directories
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 29 08:01:52 PDT 2008
Gene Cumm wrote:
>
> Peter, it is my intention to start looking at the different syslinux
> variants. It seems that some, if not all, of these functions are
> already implemented but do not have a convenient API by which I can
> utilize them. This would first require extending the COMBOOT API to
> add these functions but then turn around and implement them to just
> return an error, I think by "equ comapi_err".
>
They aren't, really. There is no underlying function to do directory
extraction, as opposed to directory matching. This may seem like a
trivial distinction, but in some cases -- e.g. VFAT with its UTF-16
filenames -- it's not.
-hpa
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