Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

[Jan Blunck]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Why bother at all?
>
> I don't see why zero sizes are a problem.  We've had them for year
> without complaints.

I'm using the i_size of directories in my patches. When reading from a 
union directory, I'm using the i_size to seek to the right offset in the 
union stack. Therefore I need values of dirent->d_off which are smaller 
than the i_size of the directory.
Altogether, it doesn't make sense to me to seek to an offset which is 
greater than the i_size and let the dirent read succeed.

Jan
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