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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: fts improvements, alternatives
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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?  ;-)