Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:10:48 -0700 | | From | "Ulrich Drepper" <> | | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? |
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On 4/10/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > That might work. But if in the long term we want to separate out what > we can send back via telldir/seekdir, and some future new Posix > interface, [...]
With all these discussions about fixes for telldir, do we want to persue an alternative interface where the user can explicitly specify that no telldir/seekdir will ever be used? From what I know so far it would make technical sense since we could speed up/reduce the memory footprint of readdir in 99% of most programs. But is the benefit large enough to warrant a second interface? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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