The iBCS2 code already does directory read emulation.

Scott Bartram
scottb@orionsoft.com
http://www.orionsoft.com/

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Ronald Khoo wrote:
> 
> : Argh -- this won't work.  This app was compiled on an older xenix
> : box that didn't use the getdents() system call to read directories
> : (or perhaps the developer accidentally said -lndir to deliberately
> : load the old opendir/readdir calls in order to be compatible
> : with pre-2.3 xenix kernels which did not support getdents -- something
> : which I used to do too)
> 
> : Perhaps the "right" thing to do would be for the emulation code
> : to trap open/read access to directories and DTRT with them?
> 
> This is the right thing.  Emulation should be as complete as possible, and
> the more things we find as they crop up, the better they are fixed.
> 
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