Re: [MiNT] {SPAM ? } Re: System call bindings

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

> Before opendir like, there was only Fsfirst/Fsnext able, with Mint come 
> opendir unix like. For me Fsfirst is more easy to understand than 
> opendir solution, and I still use it.

This is your choice.

> Older programs never know that 
> Pdomain() exist, so they don't use it, and in my documentation look at 
> this from Compendium (perhaps wrong doc):
...
> I don't know if someone can understand this but here something more 
> interesting in comments:
>
> Process domain affects system calls like* (...) 
> *Fsfirst()*, and *Fsnext()*. (...) 
> When processes run under the *MiNT* domain, however, (...)
> *Fsfirst()* and *Fsnext()* may not 
> necessarily return the standard *DOS* 8 + 3 file name format. 

The Compendium is simply wrong here.

> Modern softwares use modern calls, old software have no idea of new 
> calls, so for me Pdomain() is an elegant way to solve problem of 
> Fsfirst/Fsnext,

What "problem"?

> Notice I have not see anywhere the way to know if long 
> filename are support or not?

What about Dpathconf() ?

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