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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC] f_pos ?
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:31:29PM +0000, FabF wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to understand how readdir process works and I can't understand
> f_pos management :
>
> Having in mind things work that way :
>
> user : ls
> glibc :
> open (->sys_open)
> getdentries64 (->sys_getdentries64)
>
> kernel:
> sys_getdentries64
> ->vfs_readdir
> ->ext2_readdir
>
> At that point, I don't understand why ext2_readdir is playing with
> filp->f_pos .... It should be 0 ...Why does it care about offset ?
>

I think it may not be 0 all the time. A seekdir() could change could change
the offset to non-zero.

Thanks
Maneesh

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