Re: [PATCH] Add getdents32t syscall

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:32:26PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> (since 1997 or so), so with the extended getdents syscall glibc would need
> to memmove every name by 1 byte.

Glibc will have to have the code to play the memmove game for
compatibility with existing kernels.  So the question is whether or
not the memmove by one byte will actually be noticeable for most
application.  Has anyone checked to see whether or not it would even
be noticeable on a profiling run?

						- Ted
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