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Re: Availability of various calls

To: mint-request@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Chris Ridd)
Subject: Re: Availability of various calls
From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 95 9:40:55 MET DST
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT-Liste)
In-reply-to: <9508151600.AA28634@mail.imc.exec.nhs.uk>; from "Chris Ridd" at Aug 15, 95 5:00 pm
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

> 
> I'm looking a little at how to make the mintlibs more independant of the
> Mint version, so it will work better on other OSes (eg MagiC) and extensions
> (eg MetaDOS).

I think that has been done already (at least for opendir etc.)?
 
> So, I was wondering: are the Directory scanning calls Dopendir, Dreaddir,
> Drewinddir, and Dclosedir always available for all drives, or are they just
> available on a per-drive basis?

The latter. The best way is to try Dopendir for each opendir() operation
and then to store the access more.

> Would they also be available on all media used in removeable drives?
> 
> Looking ahead somewhat, would it be sensible to assume that if a call like
> Psignal() is implemented, Pkill/Psigaction/etc are also implemented?
> 
> Chris
> 


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- Availability of various calls
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