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From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Subject: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:09:03 +0200
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This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is
necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a
readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories.
Besides that the new interface is no longer giving the struct file to the
filesystem implementations anymore.

Comments, please?
Jan