[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] osd menu fielsel.c

[Daniel Pittman]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, BjXrn Sandell wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:23:02 +0100
> Alban Bedel <albeu at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi Björn Sandell,
>> on Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:59:09 +0100 you wrote:
>> > A patch to make menu_filesel.c a bit more portable. Tested on
>> > RedHat and OpenBSD.

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>> And what is the use of this d_type thing instead of stat ?
> 
> Well, it seems unnessecary to do stat() to figure out something you
> already know, and it makes it much easier to move the definition of
> compare() out of oper_dir().

It looks to me like you trust the content of the d_type field when it's
present. On Linux this field can be present but set to unknown if an
early enough kernel is in use or the filesystem does not fill the value.

      Daniel

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