[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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