Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is FTW? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990610143813.25730C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990609125507.19604B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > In the FAQ of FreeBSD 2.X, 13.12. Alternative layout policies for > directories, there is the following sentence: > > 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. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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