Hi,

we need a unit for Lazarus and Delphi with the procedure FindClose and the functions FindFirst and FindNext. These routines should have the same results and parameters lists as in the Lazarus unit 'fileutilh' and in the Delphi unit 'System.Sysutils'. In contrast to them the new unit should use the MFT (Master File Table) of NTFS to find files. This is very much faster than with the fileutilh routines.

There are two Open Source Programs showing how to find files with MFT:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/
https://blogs.msmvps.com/bsonnino/2019/03/22/super-fast-file-enumeration-with-ntfs-structures/

I want to use this new unit in my own programs, but also to donate it as Open Source Software to the community. For the development and debugging of this new unit I have a small budget of USD 360  (6 developer hours of USD 60) as modest contribution.

Regards --
Hans-Georg  J o e p g e n