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There are a few main goals:
1.The path specifications always has to be absolut. Any usage of relative path
specifications is forbidden. Exceptions are osl_getSystemPathFromFileURL,
osl_getFileURLFromSystemPath and osl_getAbsoluteFileURL. Most operating systems
provide a "Current Directory" per process. This is the reason why relative path
specifications can cause problems in multithreading environments.
2.Proprietary notations of file paths are not supported. Every path notation must the file URL specification. File URLs must be encoded in UTF8 and after that escaped. Although the URL parameter is a unicode string, the must contain only ASCII characters
3.The caller cannot get any information whether a file system is case sensitive, case preserving or not. The operating system implementation itself should determine if it can map case-insensitive paths. The case correct notation of a filename or file path is part of the "File Info". This case correct name can be used as a unique key if neccessary.
4. Obtaining information about files or volumes is controlled by a
bitmask which specifies which fields are of interest. Due to performance
issues it is not recommended to obtain information which is not needed.
But if the operating system provides more information anyway the
implementation can set more fields on output as were requested. It is in the
responsibility of the caller to decide if he uses this additional information
or not. But he should do so to prevent further unnecessary calls if the information
is already there.
The input bitmask supports a flag osl_FileStatus_Mask_Validate which
can be used to force retrieving uncached validated information. Setting this flag
when calling osl_getFileStatus in combination with no other flag is
a synonym for a "FileExists". This should only be done when processing a single file
(f.e. before opening) and NEVER during enumeration of directory contents on any step
of information processing. This would change the runtime behaviour from O(n) to
O(n*n/2) on nearly every file system.
On Windows NT reading the contents of an directory with 7000 entries and
getting full information about every file only takes 0.6 seconds. Specifying the
flag osl_FileStatus_Mask_Validate for each entry will increase the
time to 180 seconds (!!!).
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