New platform independent problem

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Fri Jan 20 17:22:00 GMT 2006


> From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake)
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, henman@it.to-be.co.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:01:37 +0000
> 
> > You could have a flag that, if set, will instruct readdir to do the
> > expensive processing.  Applications that need the real inode will set
> > that flag.
> 
> And then we would have to change applications to call this nonstandard
> entry point at the beginning of their program to set the flag.

Not necessarily, you could do that in a static constructor in a
Cygwin-specific source file, far from the application's sources, which
will remain unpolluted.

> As long as we are editing programs, we might as well teach them to
> respect a sentinel of -1 without having to resort to adding a
> nonstandard entry point.

I don't see how this is better: -1 is an arbitrarily picked value,
with no relation to any standard.  Why should applications learn about
it?

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