Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:42:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is FTW? Message-ID: <19990610154246.A49356@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990610143813.25730C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Thu Jun 10 14:41:00 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990609125507.19604B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990610143813.25730C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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In the last episode (Jun 10), Zhihui Zhang said: > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Most filesystems are created from archives that were created by a > > depth first search (aka ftw). > > > > What does ftw stand for (My guess is File Tree Walk)? Can anyone > > give me examples of programs that create archives from a file tree > > in a depth first way? Do these programs rebuild the file tree from > > archive exactly as they were created? > > I have just found that ftw does stand for File Tree Walk and there is a C > library routine named ftw() (XPG4 standard) in AIX and HP-UX. However, I > can not find the same routine in FreeBSD manual pages. Maybe it is not > supported by FreeBSD. There is a set of fts* funtcions in FreeBSD (man fts); it looks like the options are very similar. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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