On Fri, 4 November 2005 16:11:04 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>
> True. Seeking to that offset should at least fail and shouldn't stop at the
> new entry. But SuSV3 says that the offset given by telldir() is valid until
> the next rewinddir(). This is no problem for directories that can only grow.
> I tried to implement some kind of deferred dput'ing of the d_child's but that
> was too hackish and was wasting memory. So the best thing I can do now is fail
> if someone wants to seek to an offset of an already unlinked file.
Does that mean that, to satisfy the standard, you'd have to allow the
seek, but return 0 bytes on further reads, as you're already at (or
beyond, whatever) EOF?
Sounds quite ugly and it would be nice if this wasn't necessary.
Jörn
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