Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpisod2!decot 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 Lines: 16 > 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 CottrellIt's irrelevant as far as POSIX is concerned: it now requires only the d_name field to be part of struct dirent. Dave Decot hpda!decot