From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965966AbXDGXal (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965985AbXDGXal (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:30:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:32832 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965966AbXDGXak (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:30:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:30:38 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Theodore Tso , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: If not readdir() then what? Message-ID: <20070407233037.GA16508@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Theodore Tso , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20070407203633.GA21555@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070407203633.GA21555@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is, > anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long > time, even the POSIX-provided guarantees about files that are created > and deleted between the telldir() and seekdir() points in time makes > its utility highly dubious. It's not going to solve anything at all. We can't stop supporting functionality that has been there forever.