> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
