From kde-commits  Tue May 17 21:47:56 2005
From: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:47:56 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio
Message-Id: <200505172347.57412.kde () carewolf ! com>
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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 23:35, ralf.habacker@freenet.de wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 21:44 schrieben Sie:
> > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 19:54, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > --- trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/kurlcompletion.cpp #415080:415081
> > > @@ -225,11 +225,17 @@
> > >  		// Solaris and IRIX dirent structures do not allocate space for
> > > d_name. On // systems that do (HP-UX, Linux, Tru64 UNIX), we
> > > overallocate space but // that's ok.
> > > -
> > > +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> > > +		struct dirent *dirEntry = 0;
> > > +		while ( !terminationRequested() &&
> > > +		        (dirEntry = ::readdir( dir)))
> > > +#else
> > >  		struct dirent *dirPosition = (struct dirent *) malloc( sizeof(
> > > struct dirent ) + MAXPATHLEN + 1 ); struct dirent *dirEntry = 0;
> > >  		while ( !terminationRequested() &&
> > >
> > >  		        ::readdir_r( dir, dirPosition, &dirEntry ) == 0 && dirEntry
> > >  		        :: )
> > >
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> >
> > broken. please write a configure check testing for readdir_r
>
> Please remember that cygwin is an unix emulation layer
> http://www.cygwin.com on top of the native windows api. It does not support
> readdir_r yet, so this patch is a workaround to get it running. By the time
> it will be in the cygwin api and this patch could be removed.
>
What I think he means is that you should make a test for readdir_r in 
configure, and make the ifdef more generic. This way the code will still work 
when cygwin gets fixed, or anywhere else readdir_r is not available.

`Allan