FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: EntryList / entry_refs

[Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On another note, I don't think we're going to be able to do much with 
> some of the functions that take entry_refs until we get the new kernel. 
> I have yet to figure out a way yet to turn an entry_ref into a file
> descriptor or a pathname with Posix. 

I take it back. We're good to go. :-)

There was no way we were going to have a fully functional Posix-only BEntry 
without an entry_ref_to_path() function, so I hacked out a way of making it 
work. 

There's now an external program in storage_kit/tools/ that links with the 
R5 storage kit. It takes an entry_ref as command line parameters (a device 
id, a directory inode #, and a leaf name) and prints out the full path for 
the entry to stdout. Our Posix entry_ref_to_path() function invokes that 
program and reads the pathname from a pipe. It's slow as could be, but 
it'll suffice until we get the new kernel.

-Tyler