Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:53:51 -0400 | From | Peter Staubach <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Union mount readdir support in glibc |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> Actually, do we really need it other than to 0 and to current position >>> (i.e. full rewind and a no-op)? >>> >> Ever heard of the little function "telldir"? >> > > Actually, telldir/seekdir is already broken for some filesystems (NFS > comes to mind). POSIX was really crazy to require a working seekdir > implementation, and userspace should quickly start _not_ using it. > >
What makes you think that telldir/seekdir don't work for NFS? The over the wire protocols clearly take values which could be retrieved and stored via those interfaces.
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> The more new filesystems it doesn't work, the better, IMHO. > > Miklos > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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