hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) (03/15/90)
In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to
request the addition of a "getwd" call, which I have often found
myself wanting. After all, we've already got mkdir/rmdir -- I see
these in the same class of operations, which can be emulated if
the underlying OS doesn't provide a system call.
I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the
ability to create "ctime" style (or a more modern "standard" format,
if one exists) timestamps for human readers would also be useful.
The latter could be done by a subroutine, but I find it distasteful
to have to wield a process to get any of the above information.
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UUCP : {hp-pcd,tektronix}!ogicse!hakansonjv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (03/16/90)
In article <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu> hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) writes: > In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to > request the addition of a "getwd" call, ... I'll second this. > I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the This also. > ability to create "ctime" style (or a more modern "standard" format, Someone posted a 'ctime.pl' some time ago. Has anyone archived it? Johan Perl hacking on HPUX again ... -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------
meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) (03/16/90)
In article <JV.90Mar15140107@squirrel.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: | In article <8017@ogicse.ogi.edu> hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) writes: | | > In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to | > request the addition of a "getwd" call, ... | | I'll second this. And on System V systems this would use getcwd..... | > I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call, and the | | This also. And if no gethostname, revert to uname..... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so
hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) (03/17/90)
And while I'm at it, I noticed just today that the one get*ent()
routine which I need is not supported: getfsent(3). Neither is its
replacement on NFS machines everywhere, getmntent(3). Rodents!
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UUCP : {hp-pcd,tektronix}!ogicse!hakansonchip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (03/17/90)
According to hakanson@ogicse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson): >In the interests of portable and efficient scripts, I'd like to >request the addition of a "getwd" call. Sure -- as long as the non-BSD implementation uses Doug Gwyn's getcwd() routine instead of the library one. If we're going to do this, let's do it right: getcwd() (on most versions of USG Unix) does popen("pwd","r"), which is approximately the slowest possible way to determine the current directory. Doug's version uses readdir() and stat(), and is much faster (obviously). >I'd also like to add my support for a "gethostname" call. And/or uname(). (Some systems have both, you know...) -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip> "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."