Re: Guarantee Critical Regions in Portable code. Portable Semaphores?

On Feb 1, 7:37 am, Stefan Reuther <stefan.n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most embedded applications do not require LFN support, so it is always
going to be a low priority feature for me.

If your embedded application intends to read memory cards / sticks with
music on them, users will expect to see long file names. At least, my

Well, (a) the world DOES NOT need yet another MP3 player project, and
(b) the important information is in the ID3 tags, not in the filename.
Parsing the filename is the last resort if your MP3 file is missing
ID3s.

However, as far as I understand, MS' patents mostly apply to allow
coexistence of 8.3 and long file names. Most embedded applications don't

Correct... the patent raised the most often in this discussion talks
about the idea of maintaining two parallel databases of filenames with
links associating one with the other. But FAT with 8.3+LFNs is not the
only place MS uses this technique; they also use it for example when
serving MacOS volumes from an NT-family server.

major nuisances such as "dir c:\*1*" showing "c:\Program Files" and
"c:\Documents and Settings", which have a "1" in their short name.

That's a bug in the way CMD.EXE parses wildcards, though - not an
inherent FS bug. Observe that an Explorer window does not show the 8.3
equivalent for a file for which an LFN exists, and an explorer search
on a FAT volume also suppresses these 8.3 orphans.

.

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