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Re: Filesystem get/setinfo


Savin Zlobec <savin@elatec.si> writes:

> I need to write some filesystem specific functions.
> The get/setinfo calls seem to be the right way to do this,
> but I can't find any functions to access them from my application.
> 
> The following functions would do the trick for me:
> 
> int cyg_fs_getinfo(const char *path, int key, void *buf, int len);
> int cyg_fs_setinfo(const char *path, int key, void *buf, int len);
> int cyg_fs_fgetinfo(int fd, int key, void *buf, int len);
> int cyg_fs_fsetinfo(int fd, int key, void *buf. int len);
> 
> Or is there any way to do this already without accessing internal
> structures?

For filesystems you should be using ioctl() for these sorts of
out-of-band control operations. That's what it's there for, and more
than likely there is already a code defined for what you want to do.

What do you need these functions for?


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