Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:11:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? |
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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.
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