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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: directory access (was: xbbs features as request)
Message-ID: <14020043@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 88 05:19:52 GMT
References: <15855@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> I do take exception to the apparently gratuitous change of renaming
> `d_ino' to `d_fileno' in the System V interface, though this can be
> worked around with a #define.
> 
> 	Kirk McKusick
> 
> As for his disagreement about d_ino/d_fileno, I think the idea here was
> to disassociate the idea of a (UNIX specific) inode from the idea of a
> generalized file handle. And of course, defines work both ways.
> 
> 	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	

It's irrelevant as far as POSIX is concerned: it now requires only the d_name
field to be part of struct dirent.

Dave Decot
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