From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Staubach Subject: Re: [RFC] Union mount readdir support in glibc Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <47DABBAF.4040005@redhat.com> References: <20080311055527.GA7256@in.ibm.com> <47D9F6CC.6010009@redhat.com> <20080314053925.GA10722@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <47DA257C.9060409@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: drepper@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, jblunck@suse.de, ezk@cs.sunysb.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, cmm@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> Actually, do we really need it other than to 0 and to current position >>> (i.e. full rewind and a no-op)? >>> >> Ever heard of the little function "telldir"? >> > > Actually, telldir/seekdir is already broken for some filesystems (NFS > comes to mind). POSIX was really crazy to require a working seekdir > implementation, and userspace should quickly start _not_ using it. > > What makes you think that telldir/seekdir don't work for NFS? The over the wire protocols clearly take values which could be retrieved and stored via those interfaces. ps > The more new filesystems it doesn't work, the better, IMHO. > > Miklos > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >