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Re: df and ls for root directories on Win9X
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 26 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 05:54:32PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> > >At 12:48 PM 5/25/2003 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > >>On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >>>On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 06:34:23PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> > >>>> 2003-05-23 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> * autoload.cc (GetDiskFreeSpaceEx): Add.
>> > >>>> * syscalls.cc (statfs): Call full_path.root_dir() instead of
>> > >>>> rootdir(full_path). Use GetDiskFreeSpaceEx when available and
>> > >>>> report space available in addition to free space.
>> > >>>> * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fstat_by_name):
>> > >>>> Do not call FindFirstFile for disk root directories.
>> > >>>
>> > >>>Applied.
>> > >>
>> > >>Um. I am still reviewing the fstat_by_name stuff. I will be making
>> > >>changes to this.
>> > >>
>> > >I hope you find a more elegant way to determine when it's a root directory.
>> >
>> > The previous code obviously went out of its way to handle a special
>> > case. It was not a "bug" that it filled out an array and changed "c:\"
>> > to "c:\*".
>> >
>> > I'm away from my computer now so I can't easily check to see what you
>> > did but it looks like you made the root directory always assume today's
>> > date.
>> >
>> > I also had a problem with this:
>> > + else if (pc->isdir () && strlen (*pc) <= strlen (pc->root_dir ()))
>> >
>> > Isn't the strlen check just a more expensive and less clear way of doing
>> > a strcmp? i.e.,
>> >
>> > + else if (pc->isdir () && strcmp (*pc, pc->root_dir () == 0)
>> >
>> > ?
>> >
>> > cgf
>>
>> Wouldn't you need an stricmp in that case? Since the comparison is '<='
>
>s/stricmp/strncmp/
Yes, you'd need strncmp.
cgf