> you can consider doing it out of band; e.g. a new fossil console command. > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:30 AM Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> wrote: > > > And unfortunately I cannot figure out any alternative, either. :-( > > > > An interesting point is: why directory entries can be read but cannot be > > written? I mean we use Tcreate to create a new file in a dir, while to be > > uniform with files, we should use a Twrite, appending a corresponding stat > > structure at the end of a directory entry. > > > > However this solution probably has not been adopted to enable safe > > concurrency in the file creation and removal. > > > > However this asymmetry shows that directories cannot be (pratically) > > handled in the same way of files.
right. directories are not the same as files. you're right that reading a directory is useless. - erik
