[syslinux] [PATCH] fs: fix call to fs_ops->readdir

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 03/07/2010 11:43 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> This brings up a few questions.
>>
>> 1) This appears to be for Syslinux-4.00 if I'm looking at -pre36 and
>> the code correct.  Is this assumption correct?
>>
>
> Yes.

Thank you.

>> 2) Since I release the initial run of code for the directory-related
>> functions and 3.x, I had posted a git archive as requested and never
>> heard back from anyone again.  This can probably be chalked up to
>> "life happens."
>>
>> 3) I'd like to investigate the completeness of the directory-related
>> functions and see about completing them if they are not.  I also have
>> an improved version of ROSH (Read-Only SHell) although I still do not
>> consider it complete.
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> At this point, I have spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the readdir code
> in Syslinux 4.  I don't really think there is any point in getting the
> Syslinux 3 readdir code up to snuff at this point; let's instead focus our
> efforts on Syslinux 4.
>

I really haven't been tracking things very closely since some time
shortly after I published the git archive.  Based on that, I'd agree:
3 is better for fixes while active dev in 4/5, especially for
something that was never completed for 3.

> I would love to see you spend your efforts at improving rosh.  Syslinux 5 is
> also including a rewritten CLI written in C; we perhaps should think if
> there are things in rosh that should be included in the new CLI or if there
> are other useful connections.
>
>        -hpa
>

Well, as I said before, it's currently very rough but mostly intended
to try to be a starting point for something more functional.  I
released my initial rosh code primarily as an easy way to prove that
my basic directory code for SYSLINUX worked.  I'd like to see rosh
become something far more useful and refined than it is now.

-- 
-Gene

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