linux-kernel - Re: If not readdir() then what?

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Message-ID: <20070407233037.GA16508@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:30:38 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If not readdir() then what?

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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