Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:28:10 +0200 | From | Jan Blunck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Why bother at all? > > I don't see why zero sizes are a problem. We've had them for year > without complaints.
I'm using the i_size of directories in my patches. When reading from a union directory, I'm using the i_size to seek to the right offset in the union stack. Therefore I need values of dirent->d_off which are smaller than the i_size of the directory. Altogether, it doesn't make sense to me to seek to an offset which is greater than the i_size and let the dirent read succeed.
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