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Gregory Nutt 2017-02-13 12:05:33 -06:00
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@ -1369,19 +1369,45 @@ o File system / Generic drivers (fs/, drivers/)
NOTE: The NXFFS file system has its own TODO list at nuttx/fs/nxffs/README.txt
Title: CHMOD(), TRUNCATE(), AND FSTAT()
Description: Implement chmod(), truncate(), and fstat().
Title: MISSING FILE SYSTEM FEATURES
Description: Implement missing file system features:
chmod() is probably not relevant since file modes are not
currently supported.
fstat() may be doable: Most file system implement stat() by
looking up the directory entry associated with the path
then generating the struct stat data. But most file
systems also keep the directory entry in the private data
associated withe open file. So it should possible to
implement fstat() as a file system method and use that
saved directory entry to generate the stat data.
File privileges would also be good to support. But this is
really a small part of a much larger feature. NuttX has no
user IDs, there are no groups, there are no privileges
associated with either. User's don't need credentials.
This is really a system wide issues of which chmod is only
a small part.
User privileges never seemed important to me since NuttX is
intended for deeply embedded environments where there are
not multiple users with varying levels of trust.
truncate - The standard way of setting a fixed file size.
Often used with random access, data base files. There is no
simple way of doing that now (other than just writing data
to the file).
fstat(): Currently in work. The unverified solution is on
the 'fstat' branch in the repository.
link, unlink, softlink, readlink - For symbolic links. Only
the ROMFS file system currently supports hard and soft links,
so this is not too important.
File locking
Special files - NuttX support special files only in the top-
level pseudo file system. Unix systems support many
different special files via mknod(). This would be
important only if it is an objective of NuttX to become a
true Unix OS. Again only supported by ROMFS.
True inodes - Standard Unix inodes. Currently only supported
by ROMFs.
The primary obstacle to all these is that each would require
changes to all existing file systems. That number is pretty