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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

  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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