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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: >> this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is, >> anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long >> time, even the POSIX-provided guarantees about files that are created >> and deleted between the telldir() and seekdir() points in time makes >> its utility highly dubious.> > It's not going to solve anything at all. We can't stop supporting > functionality that has been there forever. Well, the question is if you can keep the seekdir/telldir cookie around as a pointer -- preferrably in userspace, of course. You would presumably garbage-collect them on closedir() -- there is no other point at which you could. I personally suspect that hch is right -- this stuff has been there since time immemorial and it'll be hard or impossible to deprecate it. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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