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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] Re: [NFS] htree+NFS (NFS client bug?)
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>>>>> " " == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> writes:

>> If glibc issued a new readdir request (which is what I suspect
>> has happened here), the NFS client has no idea what the
>> previous reply was

> Well, glibc will *always* issue another readdir, because the
> only way we can ever tell glibc that we're at EOF on the
> directory is when we eventually return 0 from getdents. The
> question about client behaviour is, if we've already been told
> that the stream is at EOF, should the client simply discard
> that info and keep reading regardless, or should it cache the
> EOF status?

We could possibly cache the EOF status by overloading some other field
in the struct file. f_version comes to mind as a useful candidate,
since it automatically gets reset by llseek.

Cheers,
Trond
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