libsmbclient and browsing: dirents and entry type ...

[Richard Sharpe]

At 09:55 AM 1/1/01 -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
>Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> ...
>> The normal paradigm that I expect to be used is:
>> 
>>    dirp = smbc_opendir("smb://");
>> 
>>    while (dir = readdir(dirp)) {
>> ...
>
>I strongly recommend *against* shoe-horning the SAMBA browsing stuff
>into the "standard" directory functions - no two UNIX's use the
>same dirent structure (in fact, some use a structure named "direct")
>
>If instead you provide your own smbc_dirent structure, it can
>contain the smbc_stat values.

OK, but my concern with taking this approach is that it will require a
different style of programming for dealing with directories with
libsmbclient than with UNIX-style directories ...

Do the advantages outweigh the problems?

>...
>> from among:
>> 
>>   SMBC_ALL_WORKGROUPS or SMBC_TOP
>>   SMBC_WORKGROUP
>>   SMBC_SERVER
>>   SMBC_SHARE
>>   SMBC_DIR
>>   SMBC_FILE
>>   SMBC_LINK???
>
>I think you'll want to identify the type of share - directory or
>printer or whatever.  Other than that, it looks like enough
>information to implement all sorts of applications.
>
>-- 
>______________________________________________________________________
>Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products                  mike at easysw.com
>Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
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