Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932165AbVKDQjg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:39:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932169AbVKDQjg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:39:36 -0500 Received: from 238-193.adsl.pool.ew.hu ([193.226.238.193]:4879 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932165AbVKDQjf (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:39:35 -0500 To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no CC: jblunck@suse.de, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <1131121642.8806.42.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (message from Trond Myklebust on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:27:21 -0500) Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix 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> <1131121642.8806.42.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:39:03 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 14 > The new bug is rather that glibc will return EOVERFLOW, and try to > rewind your file pointer if your filesystem happens to return 64-bit > offsets to getdents64(). Well, that's sort of understandable. It has to map unique 64-bit offsets to unique 32-bits offsets, which is rather hard. Miklos - 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/