Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:41:30 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? |
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On Sun, 8 April 2007 11:11:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Well, the question is if you can keep the seekdir/telldir cookie around > as a pointer -- preferrably in userspace, of course. You would > presumably garbage-collect them on closedir() -- there is no other point > at which you could.
Garbage-collecting them on closedir() does not work. It surprised me as well, but there seem to be applications that keep the telldir() cookie around after closedir(). Iirc, "rm -r" was one of them.
Neil, is this correct?
Jörn
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