[m-users.] Reading the entire directory contents (contribution for the posix library)

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Volker Wysk wrote:

> Am Montag, den 14.10.2019, 10:32 +1100 schrieb Julien Fischer:

>> I think this is outside the scope of what the POSIX binding was
>> intended
>> to provide (i.e. a "bare" interface to POSIX functionality).
>>
>> In any case, more general functionality for travesing over
>> directories
>> is provided directly by the standard library (e.g. by the predicates
>> dir.foldl2/6 and dir.recursive_foldl2/7.)
>
> I think those are overkill, when you just need the directory contents.
> Maybe dir_contents should be added to the "dir" library?

I'm not convinced that it is generally useful enough to warrant
inclusion it the standard library.

Julien.