Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:22:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Fw: [POSSIBLE-BUG] telldir() broken on ext3 dir_index'd directories just after the first entry. |
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>So instead what we need to do is wire '.' and '..' to have hash values >of (0,0) and (2,0), respectively, without ignoring other existing >dirents with colliding hashes. (In those cases the programs will >break, but they are statistically rare, and there's not much we can do >in those cases anyway.)
IMO it's better to fix the mess all at once to have it weeded out for some months.
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