Messages in this thread | | | From | (Jens-Uwe Mager) | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:18:01 GMT |
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In article <mng==199802262348.XAA04352@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> As for seekdir/telldir, if we do want to provide minimal compatibility > then I'd be happy to make telldir() return 0 every time, and make > seekdir() always seek back to the start of the directory. I imagine > that will cater for the vast majority of uses of these functions.
Please do not do this - I have the telldir return value quite useful for telling directory enties apart, kind of like an unique ID for a directory entry. -- Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>
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