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On Sat April 18 2009, Peter Wang wrote:
> I'm quite sick of discussing this and you probably are all as well.
> Just to let you know:
>
> Tomorrow (later today) I plan to split up the current fshook API into
> the traditional divisions: one part to deal with file streams, and one
> part deal with directory hierarchies. A new type, ALLEGRO_FILE, will
> correspond to FILE. For most users, including all uses in the addons
> right now, that's the only difference they will see.
>
> I will follow Elias's suggestion for a thread-local setting for the
> current vtable, integrated with al_(re)store_state. I won't pursue
> my URI proposal. Of course, it could be implemented by setting the
> vtable.
>
> Then I will concentrate on fixing the corner cases in the stream
> operations, and leave the directory stuff to someone who cares.
Just how is readdir supposed to work now? We already agreed on making it
return a ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY. Splitting it won't allow that, and will make the
api annoying to use.
> Peter
>
>
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