Re: DCACHE Pinning Problems with rm -r on 2.2.15/2.3.99Pre3 withNWFS2.2.2

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 08:18:26 EST


Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > In fact, I already do have a scheme for doing this with persistent
> > offsets, problem is that they are not always ascending.
>
> That's OK, as long as there is some magic value that can seek to
> a sequence point in the directory even if files are being added
> and removed, things will work fine.

Beware that Glibc assumes it can do LSEEK_CUR using the difference
between two offsets...

-- Jamie

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