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On Thursday 07 December 2006 12:52 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-12-07, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What are the limitations I have when moving the 4.3 code over to 4.2? I
> > basically only need to add one or two vtable entries, and the wrapper
> > functions.
> >
> > Can I just add the "get_dir" hook to the end of the system vtable, and
> > call it done?
>
> Why do you need a get_dir hook, and what does it do? I assume you're
It retrieves several system dependant directories, HOME, TEMP,
ApplicationData, etc.
> trying to fix pack_fopen_chunk(), and you're wanting to find the
> directory holding a file that a PACKFILE handle refers to.
Nope. Its for an issue with Window's not implementing a useable tmpnam or
similar function. And having a way to get a number of system specific
directories may be usefull beyond just the temp dir.
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/588910/633332#target
> In that case
> we have the file's name in f->normal.filename, and we can extract the
> directory name out of that.
>
> Peter
>
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