Paul Eggert wrote:
> On platforms lacking fchdir,
> put a wrapper around 'open' so that we can keep track of which file
> descriptors correspond to directories. The 'open' wrapper puts the
> name of the opened directory into a hash table. (The name must be
> absolute, so 'open' may need to do the
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for working on it, but I think we'd prefer a solution that
> doesn't require the maintainer having to think about obsolete
> platforms that lack fchdir.
>
> How about the following idea instead? On platforms lacking fchdir,
> put a wrapper around 'op
Thanks for working on it, but I think we'd prefer a solution that
doesn't require the maintainer having to think about obsolete
platforms that lack fchdir.
How about the following idea instead? On platforms lacking fchdir,
put a wrapper around 'open' so that we can keep track of which file
descri
While compiling on BeOS, a more difficult problem shows up in the testsuite:
recursive "chown -R ..." and recursive removals "rm -r ..." fail with error
message "Function not implemented" (= strerror(ENOSYS)). The reason:
BeOS doesn't have an fchdir() function, nor fdopendir(), nor a /proc filesys
