Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964813AbVKGKQd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:16:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964815AbVKGKQd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:16:33 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:22187 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964813AbVKGKQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:16:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:17:10 +0100 From: jblunck@suse.de To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix Message-ID: <20051107101710.GB7932@hasse.suse.de> References: <20051104122021.GA15061@hasse.suse.de> <20051104131858.GA16622@hasse.suse.de> <20051104151104.GA22322@hasse.suse.de> <20051104154610.GB23962@hasse.suse.de> <20051104160443.GB25491@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: 1177 Lines: 35 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 -- 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/