Re: open by ID interface (was: Re: Networking layer ...)

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:22:46PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > > You need read access to a node's
> > > contents, and read access to its properties (including listing them,
> > > and getting their values), right?
> >
> > Right. A hash table of the props is quite fine. I can go from there.
> >
> > I believe that I only need file contents and file/dir props; not a dir's
> > entries.
>
> I think if we're going to provide a piece of functionality, we should
> try to provide all the features that make sense given the semantics of

Never said otherwise. Just stating my minimum requirements. I'd expect the
rest, but don't really need it right now.

>...
> It occurred to me that we don't need to pull any nasty syntactic
> tricks like this that take over certain filenames for magical
> meanings.
>
> Add the following function to svn_fs.h:

That works quite well.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/