Re: DCACHE Pinning Problems with rm -r on 2.2.15/2.3.99Pre3 withNWFS2.2.2

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 08:52:16 EST


On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > > In fact, I already do have a scheme for doing this with persistent
> > > offsets, problem is that they are not always ascending.
> >
> > That's OK, as long as there is some magic value that can seek to
> > a sequence point in the directory even if files are being added
> > and removed, things will work fine.
>
> Beware that Glibc assumes it can do LSEEK_CUR using the difference
> between two offsets...

glibc is b0rken, film at 11.

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