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Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X

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On 11/25/11 5:54 PM, Markus Wichmann wrote:
...

> 
> Yeah, that appears to be quite stunning. To my knowledge, any OS out
> there with multitasking capabilities should have a file system. Or are
> there counter examples?
> 
...

> 
> HTH,
> Markus

The question comes, do they all support them is a close enough manner
that a usable portable definition could be defined if the standard
extended the current file primitives to directories.

We do already have a POSIX standard which defines this for one major
class of systems. It would NOT make sense to just adopt that for C, as
then suddenly OSes that are NOT POSIX compatible might have a hard time
implementing the standard.

There is nothing wrong in using standards beyond the C standard in
defining your program (as long as they are compatible with it, and you
environment supports it).

This currently means that if you want to use <dirent.h>, you just need
to document that you program requires C/POSIX not just C as the
environment. This also means that you have available everything that
POSIX supplies. If the C standard did adopt a directory library you
would probably be complaining that it doesn't provide enough capability,
as it would be less than what you get from POSIX, and likely to remain
backwards compatible, (avoiding gratuitous incompatibilities with the
POSIX standard), the include file would likely be given a different name
and the functions would have different names.

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Still no dirent.h in C1X David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 04:43 -0800
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-24 09:19 -0500
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-11-25 20:01 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-26 09:03 +1300
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-25 12:18 -0800
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-26 10:14 +1300
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-25 21:18 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-11-26 13:23 -0600
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-26 23:43 +0100
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-12-02 22:26 +0000
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2011-12-02 22:35 +0000
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-03 00:51 +0100
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-25 23:54 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2011-11-25 20:18 -0500
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-26 07:21 +0000
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kleuske <kleuske@nowhere.net> - 2011-11-26 11:27 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-25 22:25 -0800
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 01:13 +0100
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-25 12:24 -0800
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-25 20:38 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-26 00:02 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-26 17:15 +0000
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-26 21:36 +0000
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X "James" <no@spam.invalid> - 2011-11-26 10:31 -0800
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-11-26 22:13 -0500
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 07:45 -0500
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-27 16:52 +0000
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 12:29 -0500
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-27 18:48 +0000
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-11-27 16:21 -0500
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2011-11-28 01:57 +0000
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 20:04 -0500
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-28 13:51 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-30 16:46 +0100
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-30 11:19 -0500
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-30 16:51 +0000
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 13:12 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-01 10:15 +1300
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 13:19 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 04:45 +0200
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-27 23:30 +0100
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-28 06:42 -0500
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-28 15:09 +0100
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-25 15:44 -0800

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