libsmbclient and browsing: dirents and entry type ...

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

In thinking about browsing, especially browsing of workgroups etc, a
difficulty arises with respect to readdir and dirents ...

The normal paradigm that I expect to be used is:


   dirp = smbc_opendir("smb://");

   while (dir = readdir(dirp)) {


      /* do something with dir, like list it, or add it to a
       * gtk+ tree or something
       */

   }

The problem is that we need to type of object returned via readdir.

We can either return a type along with the directory entry returned, but
doing so requires that we return our own private dirent structure.

Alternatively, we could frob smbc_stat so that it can return a correct type
when passed something returned by smbc_readdir. The type would be from among:

  SMBC_ALL_WORKGROUPS or SMBC_TOP
  SMBC_WORKGROUP
  SMBC_SERVER
  SMBC_SHARE
  SMBC_DIR
  SMBC_FILE
  SMBC_LINK???

Any thoughts out there?


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba