Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161157AbVKDQEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:04:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161159AbVKDQEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:04:14 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47329 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161157AbVKDQEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:04:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:04:43 +0100 From: jblunck@suse.de To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: jblunck@suse.de, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix Message-ID: <20051104160443.GB25491@hasse.suse.de> References: <20051104113851.GA4770@hasse.suse.de> <20051104115101.GH7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20051104122021.GA15061@hasse.suse.de> <20051104131858.GA16622@hasse.suse.de> <20051104151104.GA22322@hasse.suse.de> <20051104154610.GB23962@hasse.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: "From: jblunck@suse.de" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1270 Lines: 37 On Fri, Nov 04, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > > > > > Well, glibc is that stupid and triggers the bug. > > > > > > Seems to me, the simple solution is to upgrade your glibc. > > > > > > > This is SLES8. You don't want to update the glibc. > > OK, but then it's basically a SLES8 kernel issue, not a mainline > kernel issue. > > Probably very few people are using brand new kernels with glibc from > the last millennium ;) > Hmm, so I should only send patches for bugs that are often triggered upstream? Just start using seekdir() and modify the directory contents on an upstream tmpfs. You'll see that this isn't working well. This is a bug and it should get fixed. I hope that it doesn't depend on how many people using what library :) Regards, Jan Blunck -- Jan Blunck jblunck@suse.de SuSE LINUX AG - A Novell company Maxfeldstr. 5 +49-911-74053-608 D-90409 N?rnberg http://www.suse.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/