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

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 08:56:54 EST

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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > Beware that Glibc assumes it can do LSEEK_CUR using the difference
> > between two offsets...
>
> Directories and /proc both break this assumption.

Which is unfortunate because the computed LSEEK_CUR appears in Glibc's
readdir(). It's a corner case. To remove the LSEEK_CUR, unfortunately
you have to use another syscall in the normal case.

-- Jamie

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