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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think it would be better to have a statefull readdir instead.
> The kernel supports it via the ->private_data field of struct file
> (not through fork,but that looks like a generic vfs bug) 

???  fork() just copies references to struct file.

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