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SubjectRe: If not readdir() then what?
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?
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