From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:27:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050721072758.GC17431@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050721072517.GA26791@taniwha.stupidest.org>
On Thu, 21 July 2005 00:25:17 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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.
We surely agree on that one. But I guess Jan has something else in
mind with this patch. See my other reply.
Jörn
--
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-21 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-15 3:01 Jan Blunck
2005-07-15 3:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-15 10:16 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-15 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-16 0:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-19 9:28 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-19 16:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-19 18:22 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-19 18:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-19 19:14 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-19 19:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-20 11:21 ` Jörn Engel
2005-07-20 18:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-20 18:48 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-20 18:52 ` Peter Staubach
2005-07-21 7:26 ` Jörn Engel
2005-07-21 7:20 ` Jörn Engel
2005-07-21 7:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-21 7:27 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-07-20 18:24 ` Jan Blunck
2005-07-20 18:50 ` Peter Staubach
2005-07-19 9:46 ` Jan Blunck
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[not found] ` <4qoU5-6CQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4qvsI-32Y-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-15 13:12 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-07-19 9:13 ` Jan Blunck
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