421029 - Implement file search in NSPR

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(NSPR :: NSPR, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Currently, NSPR has no capabilities for file searching on the operating system.  This would be very useful to have - sdwilsh says Download Manager could use it, and it would save me time in Verbosio to have file-search as a native XPCOM component.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I think this feature should be provided in XPCOM.
Are there system calls on Windows and Mac OS X for file searching?

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Windows:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364419(VS.85).aspx
OSX (Carbon) : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Folder_Manager/Reference/reference.html

I'm having trouble finding the Cocoa references.

Comment 3

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/LowLevelFileMgmt/Tasks/LocatingDirectories.html - this might be a starting point:

"Ideally, you should use the Cocoa functions and constants defined in NSPathUtilities.h. They are easier to use and more efficient in Cocoa code. The primary function for obtaining paths to standard directories is NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains."

Comment 4

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Here's a GNU tool for file searching:
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

That covers Linux, in one way.

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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