Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek()bugfix

[Miklos Szeredi]

> The new bug is rather that glibc will return EOVERFLOW, and try to
> rewind your file pointer if your filesystem happens to return 64-bit
> offsets to getdents64().

Well, that's sort of understandable.  It has to map unique 64-bit
offsets to unique 32-bits offsets, which is rather hard.

Miklos

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