Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:24:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

>Hi to everybody, here SET:
>
>My 2 cents to the readdir/findfirst thread:
> 
> If readdir in UNIX reports the hiden files (.xxxxx) then the DJGPP version 
>*MUST* report the DOS hiden files, so if anybody have the specification for the 
>standard readdir and says that reports *ALL* the files then the DJGPP version 
>MUST report ALL. That isn't a problem of who will use the function, is a 
>problem of coherent behavior.
That's the point! And readdir reads all entries - that's what it was written
for.

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