On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:44:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:39:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > This must have come up before; feel free to remind me: is there any way
> > to make the interface easier to use? (E.g. would it help if the filldir
> > callback could be passed a dentry?)
>
> The best thing for the filesystem would be to have a readdirplus
> (or have it folded into readdir) instead of calling into lookup
> from ->filldir.
And the readdirplus would pass a dentry to its equivalent of ->filldir?
Or something else?
--b.
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