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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: wang lianwei <lianwei.wang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] UML hostfs bugs
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:10:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608122210.32222.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608122022.42389.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:22, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 17:42, wang lianwei wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There is a bug with UML kernel, some host directory can not be read, for
> > example "ls /mnt/host/usr/lib", this command is dead until you press
> > CTRL+c. I test it with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.

> I can maybe understand why it could happen. I'd be more interested in
> checking if a simple sequence of readdir() calls (without seekdir()) would
> work (probably write a standalone test program, it will be easier to use
> and debug) and 

> why read_dir needs to do seekdir (I think it's done to 
> handle calls to seekdir by the underlying process, but there should be
> different ways to do it).

I want to propose as an alternative modifying hostfs_dir_fops.llseek to point 
to a wrapper of generic_file_llseek doing what we need (i.e. seeking the 
underlying pointer), and avoiding seekdir and telldir in read_dir.
This should fix the issue (I think).

I'm sorry but I will not have the time to code the patch, so please do it 
yourselves; Wang, you're welcome to code it yourself if you feel like doing 
it.

Bye
-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10 15:42 [uml-devel] UML hostfs bugs wang lianwei
2006-08-12 18:22 ` Blaisorblade
2006-08-12 20:10   ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2006-08-14 11:07   ` wang lianwei
2006-08-15 17:47     ` Blaisorblade
2006-08-16 10:19       ` wang lianwei

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