Re: readdir loses renamed files

[Hans Reiser]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > Matthias is right.  readdir is badly architected, and no one has fixed
> > it for ~30 years.
> >    
>
> As long as M$ windows has the same problem, it's justified that we have that
> problem for 30 years now.
>
>  
>
> > It should be possible to perform an atomic readdir if that is what you
> > want to do and if you have space in your process to stuff the result.
> >    
>
> How much would it cost to always append the new name into the directory rather
> than modifying it in place?
Forgive me, what does the sentence above mean?  Paste it out of order?

Better to fix the API.

> OTOH, especially Reiserfs does not use linear file
> lists, so it would get tricky.
>
>
>
>  
We use sorted directories.
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