Trond Myklebust writes:
> >>>>> " " == Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> writes:
>
> > But there still is a problem with applications (if any) calling
> > seekdir/telldir directly...
>
> Agreed. Note however that the semantics for seekdir/telldir as
> specified by SUSv2 are much weaker than those in our current
> getdents()+lseek().
>
> >From the Opengroup documentation for seekdir, it states that:
>
> On systems that conform to the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2,
> a subsequent call to readdir() may not be at the desired position if
> the value of loc was not obtained from an earlier call to telldir(),
> or if a call to rewinddir() occurred between the call to telldir()
> and the call to seekdir().
>
> IOW assigning a unique offset to each and every entry in the directory
> is overkill (unless the user is calling telldir() for all those
> entries).
Are you implying some kind of ->telldir() file operation that notifies
file-system that user has intention to later restart readdir from the
"current" position and changing glibc to call sys_telldir/sys_seekdir in
stead of lseek? This will allow file-systems like reiser4 that cannot
restart readdir from 32bitsful of data to, at least, allocate something
in kernel on call to ->telldir() and free in ->release().
>
> Cheers,
> Trond
Nikita.
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