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Article #936Re: ansi c and directories
From: Martin Minow
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1989 20:31
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1989 20:31
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In article <20881@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: >In any case, directory operations were clearly beyond the >scope of the standard at the time it was begun---opendir &c. were >nowhere near universal in 1985. Decus C supported directory operations in its first public release in 1981. The code ran on a half-dozen operating systems. I even wrote Unix-specific variants of the functions around that time, but I cheated by implementing the directory scan operation by opening a pipe and forking a subprocess that executed the 'ls' command, then parsing the results. (A classic Unix hack if there ever was one.) So, there was prior art, even if it wasn't politically correct. Martin Minow minow@thundr.enet.dec.com The above does not represent the position of Digital Equipment Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!mountn.dec.com!minow From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ansi c and directories Message-ID: <1095@mountn.dec.com> Date: 22 Nov 89 20:31:01 GMT References: <13295@s.ms.uky.edu> <20881@mimsy.umd.edu> Reply-To: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) Followup-To: comp.std.c Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 17