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

[jblunck@suse.de]

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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