Re: Expected getdents behaviour

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:57 -0400, Akshat Aranya wrote:
> I noticed that bonnie++, in its directory tests, does the following on
> a large directory
> 
> open(dir);
> while (getdents() != 0)
> {
>    unlink all the returned entries from getdents
> }
> close(dir);
> 
> My question is whether the filesystem's readdir is expected to
> consider the offset value in the second readdir to still be valid,
> given that entries from the directory were deleted after the first
> readdir.

This would fail horribly on ntfs for example (once it supports file
deletion anyway) since the offset value of all entries changes when the
directory is modified.

Best regards,

        Anton
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