Re: Availability of various calls

[Chris Ridd <chris@imc.exec.nhs.uk>]

Martin Koehling wrote:
>What do you need these flags for?
>Simply *always* calling Dopendir() and checking it's return value
>is both fast and simple (and thus *reliable*)...
>And besides: what would you do about file systems that *don't*
>reside on one of the usual BIOS drives (0..31)?

U:\proc and so on? Hm.

I just had a look at the src and it looks as though it already checks
for EINVAL.

>Yep - it doesn't. :-(
>It *does* implement many of the new MiNT calls (in particular
>Dopendir/D(x)readdir/Fxattr), drive U: and pipes (which are
>necessary for the drag&drop protocol), but it still lacks many
>of the more Unix-like MiNT functions...

:-(