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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:48:06 -0500
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fts improvements, alternatives
Message-ID:  <20050114064806.GA10856@VARK.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <41E716F3.20504@freebsd.org>
References:  <200501120735.j0C7ZABq048856@repoman.freebsd.org> <41E5ED66.4070902@freebsd.org> <20050113072153.GA28485@VARK.MIT.EDU> <41E716F3.20504@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> [Moved to -current for further discussion.]
> 
> David Schultz wrote:
> >Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >>
> >>>Introduce new field 'fts_bignum' ...
> >>>This work is part of the BigDisk project:
> >>>        http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/bigdisk/
> >>
> >>Any plans to deal with other fts limits ... ?
> >
> >Removing FTS_LOGICAL's path length limitation is nontrivial, but
> >given your experience with bsdtar, I'd say you're an ideal person
> >to do it.  ;-)
> 
> As it happens, I started tinkering with these ideas a
> while ago but haven't found time to finish it all.
> 
> Here's a snapshot of the current WIP:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/src/tree.tgz

Nice.  That's much cleaner than the fts implementation (although
it doesn't do all that fts does.)  So tell me again: when did you
say were you planning on rewriting/fixing fts?  ;-)



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