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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml/hostfs: Propagate dirent.d_type to filldir()
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:20:17 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Currently the (optional) d_type member in struct dirent is always
> DT_UNKNOWN on hostfs, which may confuse buggy software using readdir().
> Make sure to propagate its value from the underlying filesystem if it's
> available there.

What software would that be?  We have lots of filesystems not filling
in d_type, and several operating systems don't have it at all.