Re: Limitations of standard C, formal interfaces, and othermusings. Was: ms-level timings

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> I realise that we are probably not going to get to the level of defining 
> a standard interface for the FreeBSD kqueue call or Mac OS X equivalent 
> which you can use to receive notification when a new file has been added 
> to a directory. But wouldn't it be useful to have a defined interface 
> for common things like verifying whether a string represented a file or 
> a directory; creating new files within directories; iterating over files 
> within directories; and safely walking a directory path?

For hints I would check out the platform independent interfaces 
available in Python, etc.  For example try "pydoc os.path" at your 
nearest shell prompt.

-John

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