Re: Recursive use of _findfirst & _findnext

Do you allocate a new instance of your finddata structure with each invocation, or does it re-use
the same structure?

"Ray Mitchell" <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> VS2003 - C program
>
> I need to list all files in all subdirectories. My current implementation
> calls a function I wrote that starts with a call to _findfirst to get the
> first file then continues with _findnext for subsequent files. However, if
> one of the files is found to be a directory I change to that directory then
> make a recursive call to my function, which then calls _findfirst again to
> find the files in that directory. The problem comes when I return from a
> recursive call and attempt to call _findnext again. Although I haven't spent
> a lot of time debugging it I have a sneaky suspicion that _findfirst and
> _findnext are not reentrant and each time I call _findfirst at a deeper
> recursive level it destroys the ability to resume using _findnext at a
> previous level. Am I correct on this assumption? If so, what would be a
> better way to accomplish this? I would like to avoid allocating storage to
> save all the file names if possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray


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