[Vm-dev] Merging SqueakVM and CogVM

[Colin Putney]

On 2010-07-07, at 5:59 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

>> There is a new file plugin api
>> dir_EntryLookup   someone should define what it does
> 
> Effectively stat(), i.e., looks up a single entry only and returns its info instead of having to enumerate an entire directory to find the correct entry (gets to be a real pain when the directory contains 1000+ files). *Extremely* useful if you operate on directories with lots of files and do stuff like #assureExistence etc.

Hurray! It'll give me great pleasure to use this prim in Filesystem.

Colin