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From: Jens Scharnow <jensen@nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: unixdirectory
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:29:51 +0200
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
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Hi!
I tried out the unixdirectory library to check for files with special
names in one directory. I wrote something like this:

d.scanentries
(#
do
   select
    (#

       whenfile::<
         (#
	   do
	     do_something;
	  #);

       whendir::<
         (#
	   do
	     do_something_different;
	  #);
     #);
#);

As I tried this out i saw that the do_something-Part was never reached,
although there are a lot of files in the specific directory. On the
other hand, the do_something-diferent-Part was reached for every entry
in the directory. I then tested the example from the beta-Distribution,
which showed a similar behaviour. For every entry in the directory it
posted that it woul be a directory, but it never told the name of it as
it should normally. Is this a bug in the mjolner distribution? Or is it
possible that this only happens on some machines? I use debian 2.0 linux
with glibc2.

Thanks so far,
Jens
-- 
-=>Just GNU it<=-
Jens Scharnow, Dortmund
jensen@nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de
http://www.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~jensen