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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
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