From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 10 13:43:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5524E156CF for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA49454; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:42:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:42:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is FTW? Message-ID: <19990610154246.A49356@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Thu Jun 10 14:41:00 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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