Re: [OFFTOPIC] f_pos ?

[Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:31:29PM +0000, FabF wrote:
> Hi,
> 	
> 	I try to understand how readdir process works and I can't understand
> f_pos management :
> 
>         Having in mind things work that way :
> 
>         user : ls
>         glibc : 
>                 open (->sys_open)
>                 getdentries64 (->sys_getdentries64)
>                 
>         kernel:
>                 sys_getdentries64
>                 ->vfs_readdir
>                         ->ext2_readdir
> 
> At that point, I don't understand why ext2_readdir is playing with
> filp->f_pos .... It should be 0 ...Why does it care about offset ?
> 

I think it may not be 0 all the time. A seekdir() could change could change
the offset to non-zero.

Thanks
Maneesh

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