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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.
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Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>

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