Hi Andy, "Andy Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In light of the previous comments in this thread, would Ludovic mind to > modify the patch so it only creates an archive in an empty directory... or I > will modify it to make tla to create the archive only if the preexisting > directory is empty. The issue is that this is not easily implementable. The `arch_pfs_vtable' doesn't have an `is_empty_directory ()' (or similar) call, and using the `directory_files ()' call would yield too much overhead (I'm guessing that this returns the list of files contained in a directory). On Unix-like file systems, checking whether a directory is empty can be done efficiently by looking at the `st_nlink' field of `struct stat'. However, I'm not sure similar features can be used over SFTP, HTTP, etc. Thus, I think we should just forget about this patch. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
