From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261666AbVGUHZf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:25:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261663AbVGUHZf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:25:35 -0400 Received: from ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.60]:26807 "EHLO ylpvm29.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261666AbVGUHZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:25:33 -0400 X-ORBL: [63.202.173.158] Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:17 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: J?rn Engel Cc: Jan Blunck , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes Message-ID: <20050721072517.GA26791@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20050716003952.GA30019@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42DCC7AA.2020506@tu-harburg.de> <20050719161623.GA11771@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42DD44E2.3000605@tu-harburg.de> <20050719183206.GA23253@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42DD50FC.9090004@tu-harburg.de> <20050719191648.GA24444@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050720112127.GC3890@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20050720181101.GB11609@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050721072003.GA17431@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050721072003.GA17431@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:20:03AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > In both cases, what used to be a proper offset in one fd can be > complete bogus for another one. Exactly. Knowing the position within a directory is of questionable value and trying to implement any reliable semantics for lseek is futile.