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Subject: Re: If not readdir() then what?
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:54 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said:

> NFS server sends the whole directory contents on NFS client opendir,
> so that the whole readdir/telldir/seekdir magic can happen on the
> client only... which would perhaps also enable a cheap telldir/seekdir,
> and would also give a 'fixed view' when adding/deleting files
> during readdir.

What should happen if the directory contents go stale?  If *two* systems
cache the directory and then proceed to add/delete files, what happens?

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