On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:28:10AM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> I'm using the i_size of directories in my patches. When reading
> from a union directory, I'm using the i_size to seek to the right
> offset in the union stack.
Ick. That'a a bit of a hack.
> Therefore I need values of dirent->d_off which are smaller than the
> i_size of the directory.
Hence the value of 20 I guess --- assuming nothing will stack this
high?
> Altogether, it doesn't make sense to me to seek to an offset which
> is greater than the i_size and let the dirent read succeed.
I personally would prefer that to be honest or some other way that
doesn't change i_size.
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