Re: If not readdir() then what?

[Jörn Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>]

On Sun, 8 April 2007 11:11:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Well, the question is if you can keep the seekdir/telldir cookie around 
> as a pointer -- preferrably in userspace, of course.  You would 
> presumably garbage-collect them on closedir() -- there is no other point 
> at which you could.

Garbage-collecting them on closedir() does not work.  It surprised me as
well, but there seem to be applications that keep the telldir() cookie
around after closedir().  Iirc, "rm -r" was one of them.

Neil, is this correct?

Jörn

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