Bug#480497: libglib2.0-dev: add g_dir_read_name_stat()

[Florian Ragwitz]

Package: libglib2.0-dev
Version: 2.16.3-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

glib currently provides g_dir_read_name for reading the contents of a
directory. It's a quite common operation to first get a directory entry
and stat() it directly afterwards. When using g_dir_read_name this
currently requires you build the full path name to the directory entry
using g_build_filename() (or something similar) and to call g_{,l}stat
for getting the file information.

This is not only unconvenient but also ineffective on platforms that
provide fstatat(). The patch at

http://files.perldition.org/g_dir_read_name_stat.patch

implements a g_dir_read_name_stat function that reads the name of the
next directory entry from a GDir, just like g_dir_read_name does, and
stats if afterwards. It uses fstatat() where available.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libglib2.0-dev depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpcre3                      7.6-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.59-1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  pkg-config                    0.22-1     manage compile and link flags for 

Versions of packages libglib2.0-dev recommends:
ii  python                        2.5.2-1    An interactive high-level object-o

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