Listing a directory using the file system session

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello Martijn,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:42:45PM +0100, Martijn Verschoor wrote:
> I’m looking for a way to list the files (nodes) in a directory using
> a file system session. Amongst other, I studied the
> File_system::Session and file_system/utils.h but cannot find a hook
> to get started. I see that reading the directory nodes is supported
> -> this returns the Directory_entry struct with information about
> the directory itself, but not about the nodes the directory contains
> (right?). Is there a way retrieve the latter?

You are on the right track, that reading directory entries (like in
dirent()) is provided as read operation on directory nodes. Please
have a look at os/src/lib/vfs/fs_file_system.h for an implementation
of dirent(). The trick is to use n * sizeof(::File_system::Directory_entry)
as file_offset parameter to read the n-th entry.

Hope this helps
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