Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 21 July 2005 00:25:17 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:20:03AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> 
> > In both cases, what used to be a proper offset in one fd can be
> > complete bogus for another one.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Knowing the position within a directory is of questionable value and
> trying to implement any reliable semantics for lseek is futile.

We surely agree on that one.  But I guess Jan has something else in
mind with this patch.  See my other reply.

Jörn

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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