Re: [MiNT] System call bindings

[Philipp Donzé <philipp.donze@epfl.ch>]

Hi,

> > - I found different implementations of DTA structure. "TOS.HYP", 
> > Atari compendium, "Profibuch" use the same types and names. Only 
> > mintlib uses a different approach by changing names and prefixes of 
> > the structure. I know, these bindings are old and obolete, but what's 
> > the use of having them implemented in a completely different manner 
> > than ANY document proposes? Make it difficult to port/compile old 
> > software with mintlib? ;-)
>
> All DTA description I have see in libs are wrong (I not look in recent 
> mintlib so perhaps correct), the name part, have alway's describe as 
> char name[14] that's of course not work with long file name! I have 
> correct this by simply
> char name[255]

That's not the issue I meant :-)
The DTA is not used for long filenames. To search files using long 
filenames there exist new calls Dopendir(), Dreaddir(), Dclosedir(). 
Fsfirst() and Fsnext() which use the DTA structure should only be used 
for compatibility purposes.
And I think a modern system supporting long filenames would never try 
to squeeze a long filename into a DTA structure (of which the system 
doesn't know if there is space for more than 14 characters.

My issues are that not only the name DTA is replaced by _DTA but also 
all elements of the structures are prefixed by "dta_" instead "d_".

regards
Philipp