Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix

[jblunck@suse.de]

On Fri, Nov 04, Miklos Szeredi 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?
> 
> What 'rm' is this?  Mine (coreutils 5.2.1) doesn't do any seeking and
> I don't think that glibc does either.
> 

As I said:
"Old glibc implementations (e.g. glibc-2.2.5) are lseeking after every call to
getdents() ..."

Precisely this is a SLES8 on s390-64bit.
s390vm02:/# rpm -qf /bin/rm
fileutils-4.1.11-144
s390vm02:/# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.5-234

But you can also try my testcase.

Regards,
	Jan Blunck

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