Re: If not readdir() then what?

[Andreas Schwab]

Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, 8 April 2007 21:44:26 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> 
>> Well, Joern thought that rm -rf might relying on the telldir cookie
>> being valid in precisely that circumstance.  If that is true, I'd
>> argue that this is a BUG in GNU coreutils that should be fixed...
>
> I heard it and accepted that claim without checking it.

There is not a single call to telldir/seekdir in the coreutils source.

Andreas.

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