On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Would it be feasable to provide an extension to the POSIX dirent.h > functionality? I found a small patch in some compatibility layer (in git > source) that adds d_type to the DIR structure, which is currently missing. I > discovered this when testing the POSIX code I was writing to list all files > in a directory recursively. I thought mingw has a small compat layer to > POSIX, but didn't realise it was this shallow. > > The link is: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124386152125913 > > It would be great to have this included in the readdir functionality of > mingw-w64. > > Ruben >
The functionality would be nice, yes, but new member in the DIR structure means api change & breaking backwards compatibility. I don't know how the admins would react to that. -- Ozkan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
