Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:02:21 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] Directory listing support for union mounted directories. |
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:22:28AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > No it shouldn't. The struct file contains other stateful information > from the open() call (such as authentication info) that needs to be > passed into readdir.
Which is exactly that problem this tries to solve. Once you have union mounts you'll have a single open file descriptor for multiple actual directories. Beause of that you can't simply attach to the state to the struct file but have to keep it in a different way.
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