Re: [RFC,PATCH] libfs dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() bugfix

[jblunck]

On Fri, Nov 04, Al Viro wrote:

> > 
> > SuSV3 only says:
> > "If a file is removed from or added to the directory after the most recent
> > call to opendir() or rewinddir(), whether a subsequent call to readdir_r()
> > returns an entry for that file is unspecified."
>  
> IOW, the applications in question are broken since they rely on unspecified
> behaviour, not provided by old libc versions.

No. SuSV3 only says that the behavior of readdir() is unspecified w.r.t. an
entry for the removed/added file. I think readdir() should still return the
entries which are not removed/added. What do you think?

Regards,
	Jan Blunck

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