From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: ftw. Has someone implemented it ? Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 19:17:07 GMT
In article <andre.45@maties.sun.ac.za> andre@maties.sun.ac.za (ANDRE SKARZYNSKI) writes:
>I would like to use the ftw function (walk the file tree) as is found in
>most other Unices. Is there a nice alternative for this available ? Or has
>someone written a ftw function yet ? I want to port xbbs. I have got the
>file locking sorted out. (thanks to Pieter Immelman, pi@cs.sun.ac.za). Every
>thing compiles well now except for the lack of ftw.
ftw() was added to the Linux libc.a in the latest release of the
libraries (jump 4.1). Also added was scandir() and alphasort(), among
other things. Those three functions were taken from the public domain
source written by Richard Salz and posted to comp.sources.unix volume 1.
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