Re: [AD] [TODO] About findfirst

[Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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.

No, because that would break all existing code in a potentially serious
way (ie. the compiler is calling a function it expects to return an int,
but the function doesn't return anything, so the stack gets corrupted).

Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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