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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:49:48 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] create simple libfs directory iterator and make
 efivarfs use it
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Sender: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:45:05PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> and it becomes just a simple loop -
> 	child = NULL;
> 	while ((child = find_next_child(parent, child)) != NULL) {
					that being root, obviously.

And we might want a better function name than that...