Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 7/8] nftw portability

[John Vandenberg]

On 9/15/05, Dean Roehrich <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:39:01PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > >How about nuking nftw instead, and implementing the few lines of useful
> > >code that it performs by hand?
> >
> > Okay, that sounds much easier.  Actually, I think I already wrote that
> > code for libltdl, so I'll see if I can cannibalise it now :-D
> 
> Check Joe's patches first.  I know he did something in this area.  Maybe this
> work is already done?
> 
> He has these touching backup-files.c, and most of them are specific to
> ftw/nftw issues:
> 
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/backup-files-touchup.diff
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/import_alt_ftw.diff
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/mingw-backup-files.diff
> http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/sun-backup-files.diff
> 
> and it looks like some others covering tests for this stuff.

Those four should be sufficient to support any platform as it includes
an alternate implementaton of ftw for platforms without.

> How do you keep all of this straight, Joe? :)

I ran into this new tool recently; it helps manage patches.  I don't
know how I would manage without it.

The series order is:

http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/backup-files-touchup.diff
http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/sun-backup-files.diff
http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/import_alt_ftw.diff
http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt-patches/mingw-backup-files.diff

--
John