Re: libdar::user_interaction::listing splitting the flag argument

Hi Denis,

The libdar_config.h problem seems not to be solved.
But get_children_in_table is working now, also with other dar archives.
Thank you very much.

Regards,
Tobias

Am Montag, den 28.10.2013, 20:10 +0100 schrieb Denis Corbin:
> Le 28/10/2013 17:12, Tobias wrote:
> > Hi Denis,
> 
> Hello Tobias,
> 
> > 
> > Thank you very much for the back-port!
> > That's the function I was looking for.
> > 
> > I have compiled libdar from git.
> > By the way, it seems like a #endif in the libdar_config.h include file
> > is missing:
> >> #ifndef _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE
> >> # define _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE 1
> > + #endif
> 
> Could not reproduce this from the installed data I get here, but I think
> I have found the cause. Normally only DAR related macro are present in
> this file, I've changed the filter for "DARWIN" to not match the
> DAR/LIBDAR macro filtering. Thanks to tell me if you have further
> problem or not.
> 
> > 
> > Unluckily I can list only the root directory ("") of the archive. 
> > When requesting a subdirectory I get an Exception:
> > "subdri/ entry does not exist"
> > Calling get_children_of within the same archive is working as usual.
> > Can you reproduce this behavior?
> 
> yes I could, I had just back-ported the initial patch about this feature
> and forgot that subsequent patches were fixing several bugs about that
> new feature. Now, it works better for me, and I hope for you too.
> 
> > 
> > Can I only use the get_children_in_table method when working with
> > archives that had been created with the current git release?
> 
> No, it should work for any archive even for archives generated by dar
> release 1.0.0 more than 11 years ago :)  Please pay attention to call
> archive::init_catalogue() once after the archive has been built and
> before calling get_children_in_table() the first time on that archive.
> 
> init_catalogue() loads the catalogue in memory when it is not already
> done. The catalogue is not loaded only when reading an archive in
> sequential mode before any action has been asked on that archive, as the
> contents in learned along the archive being read ... sequentially
> 
> But you have not to call init_catalogue() if you want to
> extract/diff/test the archive before exploring the archive contents: In
> sequential read mode, the access to the archive cannot be done twice so
> either you do an operation on the archive (like extracting some files)
> which finally builds up the catalogue in memory once the operation is
> completed, or you call init_catalogue() which read the whole archive in
> order to build the catalogue in memory without doing anything else on
> about file's data or EA (just skipping over it).
> 
> if not in sequential read mode, init_catalogue() does nothing and it
> does not hurt to call it anyway before calling get_children_in_table()
> to be sure the catalogue has been built in memory.
> 
> > When opening other archives and calling get_children_in_table I ran into
> > an Exception: 
> > "it seems to be a bug here"
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tobias
> > 
> 
> Regards,
> Denis.
> 
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