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- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 10:25:40 -0800
- From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
- Message-Id: <199311301825.KAA18629@mail.netcom.com>
- To: haceaton@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu, mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: Re: reserved fields in stat structure
-
- >The stat structure in the stat.h include files has some "reserved fields" i.e.
- >
- >...
- > time_t st_ctime;
- > short st_attr;
- >#ifdef __MINT__
- > short res1; /* reserved for future kernel use */
- > long res2[2];
- >#endif
- >...
-
- >Are these reserved for a known purpose at this time? I'm interested in
- >using one of the long words to return data for the size of resource forks
- >of Macintosh files (for MacMiNT). Is this reasonable? How does one go
- >about getting the MiNT developers ok for such things?
-
- Those fields haven't been assigned a specific use yet, but most likely
- they will end up encoding extra information about file times (since the
- current 2 second granularity really sucks).
-
- I don't think we should use those fields for items like resource fork
- sizes that are only applicable to one type of file system (the Mac one).
- I think that for file system specific kinds of things, an Fcntl or
- Dcntl call is more appropriate.
-
- (Sorry for the delay in responding, things have been *really* hectic
- here at work :-( ).
-
- Regards,
- Eric
-
-