> This isn't used for FAT.
It certainly *is* used under HostFS. When I am scanning the card, I need to check whether the directory entry I've found is a directory or a file. Checking whether it is a directory is easy:
if (fileInfo.attributes & vfsFileAttrDirectory)
So, I thought, if it is not a directory, let's check whether it anything *but* a link:
else if (fileInfo.attributes & (vfsFileAttrReadOnly | vfsFileAttrHidden | vfsFileAttrSystem | vfsFileAttrArchive))
and then spend two hours trying to figure out why I wasn't finding any files. :-( Turned out, *all* files on the memory card similated via HostFS had the vfsFileAttrLink attribute set and nothing else. So, in order to find them, I had to drop the whole "else if" clause and replace it with a simple "else". In other words - if it's not a directory, then assume that it's a file.
This either is a bug in HostFS (which isn't implementing FAT, but is implementing a connection to the host file system), or it's a design decision, made because all of the "files" in HostFS are links to the host's file system. I don't know the code so I can't say what it was.
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