Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Union mount readdir support in glibc | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:41:23 +0100 |
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> > Actually, do we really need it other than to 0 and to current position > > (i.e. full rewind and a no-op)? > > Ever heard of the little function "telldir"?
Actually, telldir/seekdir is already broken for some filesystems (NFS comes to mind). POSIX was really crazy to require a working seekdir implementation, and userspace should quickly start _not_ using it.
The more new filesystems it doesn't work, the better, IMHO.
Miklos
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