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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