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From jsq Wed Aug 12 01:00:06 1987
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From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick%okeeffe@berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Changed names in POSIX directory access library
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Reply-To: mckusick%okeeffe@berkeley.edu (Kirk McKusick)
Date: 11 Aug 87 19:33:34 GMT
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Cc: hoptoad!gnu@cgl.ucsf.edu (John Gilmore), gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn),
utzoo!henry@sun.com (Henry Spencer),
longway!jsq@uunet.UU.NET (John S. Quarterman),
karels@okeeffe.berkeley.edu (Mike Karels)
From: mckusick%okeeffe@berkeley.edu (Kirk McKusick)
When I wrote the directory access routines I made a mistake in
connecting them with the underlying implementation of the file
system. They clearly should work on an abstract directory
definition which may coincidentally be the same as the underlying
directory structure (as it is in 4.3BSD). As such, I fully agree
with the decision in the POSIX standard to create a new header
file <dirent.h> rather than using <sys/dir.h>. It is the intention
of CSRG to change the source code at Berkeley to <dirent.h>.
I do take exception to the apparently gratuitous change of renaming
`d_ino' to `d_fileno' in the System V interface, though this can be
worked around with a #define.
Kirk McKusick
mckusick@berkeley.edu
ucbvax!mckusick
Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 9