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Subject: Re: living without soft links
From: Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>
To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 15:00:39 -0600
Ralph Lange wrote:

> Anyway, I don't like both dbLoadRecords() and dbLoadTemplate() calls being
> changed. This will make all older startup scripts non-functional.
> 

The path could be added as the last argument. If null then implement old
functionality.

> I would prefer if one could give dbLoadRecords() and dbLoadTemplate() a set
> of include paths that are searched when opening a file. (Much like the dbExpand
> tool that already is using include paths.) The routines could check for an
> environment variable that may contain a colon separated list of paths. (To
> be set in the startup file.)
> 
> This solution would make the calls still compatible and serve for all your
> needs.

Note that dbLoadDatabase does this. After implementing it, however, a problem
appeared.
I could not find any way to make vxWorks displaying an error message everytime
an attempt was made to open a file which did not exist. Thus if the pathy is
"dira:dirb" and the file is in dirb and error message is generated when an
attempt is made to find/open/etc dira/<file>. I could not find any vxWorks
supplied function that helped. It was some time ago that this happened but I
think it happened both with and without using NFS.

Marty Kraimer

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