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From: "Charles P. Wright" <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Odd llseek semantics on directories
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:01:44 -0400
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Hello,

I've noticed that Reiser4's behavior deviates from other file systems
when seeking with directories.  After reading a directory, if you run
vfs_lseek(dir, 0, SEEK_CUR), then -ENOENT is returned.   This means that
you can't pass the identifier back to vfs_lseek with SEEK_SET.

Charles