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From: jblunck@suse.de
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:20:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051104122021.GA15061@hasse.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051104115101.GH7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Nov 04, Al Viro wrote:

> > 
> > SuSV3 only says:
> > "If a file is removed from or added to the directory after the most recent
> > call to opendir() or rewinddir(), whether a subsequent call to readdir_r()
> > returns an entry for that file is unspecified."
>  
> IOW, the applications in question are broken since they rely on unspecified
> behaviour, not provided by old libc versions.

No. SuSV3 only says that the behavior of readdir() is unspecified w.r.t. an
entry for the removed/added file. I think readdir() should still return the
entries which are not removed/added. What do you think?

Regards,
	Jan Blunck

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-04 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 11:38 [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix jblunck
2005-11-04 11:51 ` Al Viro
2005-11-04 12:20   ` jblunck [this message]
2005-11-04 12:56     ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 13:18       ` jblunck
2005-11-04 13:31         ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 15:11           ` jblunck
2005-11-04 15:16             ` Jörn Engel
2005-11-04 15:34               ` jblunck
2005-11-04 15:45                 ` Jörn Engel
2005-11-04 15:38               ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 15:32             ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 15:46               ` jblunck
2005-11-04 15:55                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 16:04                   ` jblunck
2005-11-04 16:19                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-07 10:17                       ` jblunck
2005-11-04 16:27                     ` Al Viro
2005-11-04 16:27             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-04 16:39               ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-04 16:55   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-07 10:06     ` jblunck
2005-11-04 12:52 ` Jörn Engel

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