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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 02:12:29 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] htree nfs fix
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>
> >>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> 
>      > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> If you're unhappy with the state of readdir, then fix the
>     >> VFS/glibc.
> 
>      > What should be done?
> 
> Either we have to agree that we break legacy 32-bit getdents() and
> treat all cookies as signed 32/64-bit, or we break getdents64(), and
> treat all cookies as unsigned. (This applies to both 2.5.x and 2.4.x)
> 

Or we do nothing.

What would you recommend?