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f0dder



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f0dder 03 Feb 2010, 00:04
A think to keep in mind: FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile() change the current working directory - so your routine should save/restore cwd.

baldr wrote:
hopcode wrote:
important the proc skips JUNCTIONS
That is intentional. I haven't decided yet how to handle hardlinks and symlinks.
How do you distinguish between hard- and symlink? Did a little superficial examination of hardlinks yesterday, and it wasn't obvious how to do this.
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hopcode 03 Feb 2010, 00:22
baldr wrote:
How...will directories not matching *.asm pattern be found by FindFirst/NextFile?
Oh, yes, sorry for the silly question. I cached the point, found the solution (by user's filters provided on calling the function), than i forgot it and then again i was thinking against it as a not-resolved point. All ok.
Quote:
...instead of pushing current directory on stack and scanning found subdirectory, enqueue it...

One moment...if i understand right, you mean something like first creating a "memory snapshot" of the content of the current-dir, putting all node-items in a list/queue, than processing the queue...
if so, that is a really nice idea...
Very Happy
it could be the right solution...

Thanks a lot,
hopcode
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f0dder 03 Feb 2010, 02:27
The pseudocode for such an implementation is pretty simple - implementing it efficiently is left as an exercise for the reader Smile. It doesn't have to be insanely efficient since you're I/O rather than CPU-bound, and normal systems won't have huge amounts of entries in a folder, nor super deeply nested. Still, it's fun to optimize things, isn't it? Smile

Code:
listfiles(startpath,mask,callback)
{
      queue   dirqueue;
   //queue is a FIFO structure: push_back() and pop_front().
       
    dirqueue.push_back(startpath);
      while(!dirqueue.empty())
    {
              currentpath = dirqueue.pop_front();
         foreach(entry in getentries(currentpath, mask))
                     if(entry.isdir && !entry.isjunction)
                                dirqueue.push_back(entry);      // folder, proces later
                     else
                                callback(entry);                        // file, give to callback
   }
}
    
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baldr 03 Feb 2010, 06:57
f0dder wrote:
FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile() change the current working directory
Oh really? Never experienced that.
f0dder wrote:
How do you distinguish between hard- and symlink?
That's simple: symlinks have FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT. To detect if found file is hardlink to previously processed file, GetFileInformationByHandle can be used (nFileIndexHigh/Low).
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sinsi 03 Feb 2010, 07:02
I always liked the idea of getting an entire directory's entries first, then iterating. Helps with caching I thought...
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f0dder 03 Feb 2010, 07:14
sinsi wrote:
I always liked the idea of getting an entire directory's entries first, then iterating. Helps with caching I thought...
Did some tests on a not-so-fast harddrive, and it didn't really seem to make much of a difference - perhaps with optical media it's a different story.

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