Subject: Re: Mac Aliases changing
From: Mario Klebsch DG1AM (mkl@charlie.rob.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 08:55:53 EDT
>You'd have a simple database that several afpd's could modify at once.
>The first few routines in etc/afpd/directory.c would need to be
>modified. The format could be very similar to a Unix directory, with
>free extents, etc. If a Unix file got deleted with "rm", then the
>database would be modified by the first afpd to notice the
>discrepency.
Sounds much better that the aproach with the singel file in the root
directory. To check for file removal (and creation or renaming) you
could store (and check) the directories mtime in the database. Reading
the directory is only necessary, when it has changed.
73, Mario
-- Mario Klebsch, DG1AM, M.Klebsch@tu-bs.de +49 531 / 391 - 7457 Institut fuer Robotik und Prozessinformatik der TU Braunschweig Hamburger Strasse 267, 38114 Braunschweig, Germany
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