Re: [AD] [TODO] About findfirst

["Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I thought you had agreed to the emulation.

I don't have any archive here, but I think I pointed out the fact that there
is already a wrapper around the Win32 _findfirst() and I would rather not
add another one. And of course the wrapper is used by for_each_file(),
file_size() and file_time().

> As bad as `findfirst' is, `for_each_file' is not as good.  You
> cannot stop short of reading the entire list, for one.

If that's the only drawback of for_each_file(), we can easily (at the
expense of a very very little API breakage) change the prototype of the
callback function to int (*callback)(const char *filename, int attrib, int
param) so that it can acknowledge and stop the enumeration.

> Anyway, I don't really care either way, but someone will have to
> update the docs.  ("If your platform doesn't have the find* set
> of functions, Allegro will emulate them.")

I may sound a little extremist, but I think we should get rid of the three
functions as non portable DOS-isms.

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Eric Botcazou
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