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From: jblunck@suse.de
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:17:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051107101710.GB7932@hasse.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EY4Hp-0004hf-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

On Fri, Nov 04, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> 
> Your patch is not a solution, since readdir will remain nonconforming.
> It is basically a workaround for a bug in glibc.

Updating the glibc is no solution because this isn't possible here. And I still
have the opinion that it is the filesystems job to remember the right
offset. At least this is what SuSV3 is telling me.

> It makes readdir
> nonconforming in a different way, but the end result in not
> necessarily better.

Hmm, yes you are right. 

> 
> If you manage to make dcache_readdir conform to SUS without overly
> bloating the implementation, that's fine.

Will look into that, if its possible.

Regards,
	Jan Blunck

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 10:16 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
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 [this message]
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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