andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling) (08/23/90)
In article <33083@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) in <28707@netnews.upenn.edu> writes >: [...] > >5. The linker could not find opendir(), readir() and creatdir(). > >Neither could I. Does anyone know how to get around this problem? [...] >If you want good stuff, get the PD "dirent" code from any archive site, >courtesy of Doug Gwyn. Works fine on the 3B1 (and greatly helped me to port >much of the BSD "Tahoe" networking stuff to the 3B1). This is not bashing (pleez pardon the pun :-) Doug Gwyn's work, but I have occasionally run into problems where directories with a large number of files appear to be empty when using Doug's dirent code. Aside from that little hitch, Thad is right: it is a wonderful porting tool. -Andy -- Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu Network Services Group Bitnet: ANDY@JHUNIX Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!andy