Re: DCACHE Pinning Problems with rm -r on 2.2.15/2.3.99Pre3 withNWFS2.2.2

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 09:03:34 EST

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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:30:03PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:18:26PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> > Beware that Glibc assumes it can do LSEEK_CUR using the difference
> > between two offsets...
>
> Directories and /proc both break this assumption.

Is there a good reason why the files in /proc aren't fifos -- at least all
those which don't have normal seek() semantics? I'm sure it's been suggested
before, and I guess there must have been objections..

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