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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: Filesystem compatability ...
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 16:54:26 +0100
-
- In <9401141119.AA08025@nyx.cs.du.edu>, Stephen Henson writes:
-
- > Personally I'm in favour of run time code if at all possible. This has the
- > advantage of not requiring recompilation or two binary versions. This could
- > be made fairly transparent. E.g. for a shell if $HOME is on a Minixfs partition
- > use .shellrc if GEMDOS shell.rc .
-
- Consider the statement:
-
- fd = creat( "/home/shenson/.shellrc", S_IRWXO | S_IRWXG );
-
- It would be very nice if there were a tos filesystem driver that would
- translate the filename into shell.rc, it might even be possible to write
- such an intelligent driver (using a config file to find out what kind of
- translation should be done). Is it realistic? Maybe...
-
- Ofcourse this would only work under MiNT, not under plain Gemdos. So the
- filename translation would have to be done by the creat() library function.
- The creat() function would have to find out on what type of filesystem the
- /home/shenson directory is located and, if appropriate, translate .shellrc
- to shell.rc . Is it possible? Might be. Is it realistic? I don't think so.
-
- > Alternatively there is lways the possibility of binary configuration,
- > this is very easy with the nlist() finction. I can post an example of how
- > to do this if anyone isn't sure and it's the most compact solution.
-
- Please post or send e-mail to me, whatever you think is more appropriate.
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-