Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:56:02 +0100 |
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> > > > > > SuSV3 only says: "If a file is removed from or added to the > > > directory after the most recent call to opendir() or > > > rewinddir(), whether a subsequent call to readdir_r() returns an > > > entry for that file is unspecified." > > > > IOW, the applications in question are broken since they rely on > > unspecified behaviour, not provided by old libc versions. > > No. SuSV3 only says that the behavior of readdir() is unspecified > w.r.t. an entry for the removed/added file. I think readdir() should > still return the entries which are not removed/added. What do you > think?
What 'rm' is this? Mine (coreutils 5.2.1) doesn't do any seeking and I don't think that glibc does either.
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