Re: If not readdir() then what?

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 19:30:55 EST


On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is,
> anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the cookie for a long
> time, even the POSIX-provided guarantees about files that are created
> and deleted between the telldir() and seekdir() points in time makes
> its utility highly dubious.

It's not going to solve anything at all. We can't stop supporting
functionality that has been there forever.

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