Unixfs as ShellFSFolder?

[Michael Jung]

Hey Ge,

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:55, Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> shfldr_fs and shfldr_unixfs could both inherit from
> a common implementation, we can tack on some internal routines to the
> existing vtable. Redundancy between the two can then be eliminated by
> extracting the common code to the "base class" which would call through the
> vtable to the internal routines.

As a first step, I'm planning to restrict the usage of posix apis as much as 
possible (largely to the code, which builds the pidls). As far as I 
understand by now, for stuff like moving or renaming files we should probably 
build on SHFileOperation. This way we don't have to replicate the UI stuff.

Currently, there's a unix path stored in UnixFolder's m_pszPath member. But we 
could store a DOS path there instead, as long as the current folder maps to a 
valid DOS path (m_dwAttributes & SFGAO_FILESYSTEM). This would of course 
always be the case for CLSID_ShellFSFolder.

> If this is only for the benefit of ReactOS then of course I would be
> willing to put in the work to make it happen.

The thing that would only be for the benefit of ReactOS would be the code to 
build pidls based on win32 apis. Perhaps you could jump in, once we are at 
this point.

Thanks for your comments,
-- 
Michael Jung
mjung at iss.tu-darmstadt.de