Re: [Bug-apl] Request: lib_file_io additions

[David B. Lamkins]

It looks like glob() subsumes the function of readdir(). There are some
nasty details with allocated results, too...

You could, however, combine fnmatch() with readdir().

http://linux.die.net/man/3/fnmatch

On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 11:44 +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> How about adding support for a dyadic form where the left-side
> argument is a glob pattern to be used when matching the file names?
> 
> 
> http://linux.die.net/man/3/glob
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Elias
> 
> 
> On 8 July 2014 00:52, David Lamkins <address@hidden> wrote:
>         Thanks, Jüergen. I'll change my code tonight to use the new
>         calls.
>         
>         
>         I like your solution to readdir() access. I fell asleep last
>         night pondering how best to do that.
>         
>         
>         On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Juergen Sauermann
>         <address@hidden> wrote:
>                 Hi David,
>                 
>                 I have added rename (FILE_IO[27]), SVN 364.
>                 
>                 I didn't do readdir() because that would need you to
>                 opendir(),
>                 loop around readdir() and closedir().
>                 
>                 Instead FILE_IO[28] returns the entire directory as a
>                 matrix in one go.
>                 
>                 Every row is a dirent struct but with a different
>                 order:
>                 
>                         filename
>                         d_ino;       /* inode number */
>                         d_off;       /* not an offset; see NOTES */
>                         d_reclen;    /* length of this record */
>                         d_type;      /* type of file; not supported
>                 
>                 The reason for the different order is that not all
>                 fields are present in every file system,
>                 so I thought I should put all non-optional fields
>                 before the optional field, making the columns
>                 of the result more portable.
>                 
>                 
>                 /// Jürgen
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On 07/07/2014 09:31 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote:
>                 
>                 > There are two functions that I'd like to access via 
> lib_file_io:
>                 > readdir() and rename().
>                 > 
>                 > I'm currently implementing these via popen() through 
> lib_file_io, but
>                 > that seems inelegant...
>                 > 
>                 > I have immediate application for these calls in the 
> component file
>                 > library.
>                 > 
>                 > 
>                 > 
>                 
>                 
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