On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:22:15PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 11:43, Steve Peters via RT wrote: > > (from p5p) > > > OK, with change #28473, I just added the capabilities to a stat() or -X > > filetests for systems with the dirfd() libc call available. There are > > two additional steps that need to be done. First, Perl_pp_stat and > > Perl_my_stat() have a lot of similar code when doing fstat()'s. Much of > > the common code should be refactored out. Second, developing an > > internal dirfd() for operating systems that need it should be done so > > this functionality is more portable. Also, adding a few extra tests > > wouldn't hurt either. > > I touched Parrot's File PMC the other day; could it use something like this? >
Probably. I have a couple of other configuration tasks I need to get finished for Parrot, so, I'll add a portable dirfd() implementation to the pile. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
