In article <9qv1to$ase$1@penguin.transmeta.com> torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
| Yes. "tmpfs" will consider the position in the dentry lists to be the
| "offset" in the file, and if you remove files from the directory as you
| do a readdir(), you can get the same file twice (or you can fail to see
| files).
|
| If somebody has a good suggestion for what could be used as a reasonably
| efficient "cookie" for virtual filesystems like tmpfs, speak up. In the
| meantime, one way to _mostly_ avoid this should be to give a big buffer
| to readdir(), so that you end up getting all entries in one go (which
| will be protected by the semaphore inside the kernel), rather than
| having to do multiple readdir() calls.
Generally "do it all at one go" solutions don't scale, and sooner of
later break on a large case. It's a useful work-around, but likely to
bite. And the semiphore being locked for too long, such as a slow
machine and large list, is prebably not desirable either.
Short of having an entry in a linked list (if I glanced at the code
correctly) include a synthetic position, I don't see any better
solution. Failing to see files is less of a problem, that seems possible
with any directory structure which reuses entries, but seeing the same
entry twice is not expected behaviour.
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