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

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Date:	Sun, 8 Apr 2007 01:44:34 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If not readdir() then what?


On Apr 7 2007 16:36, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
>So how do we solve this problem?  I can think of two solutions:
>
>1) Deprecate telldir/seekdir() altogether.  Relatively few progams use
>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.
>
>2) If application programs must have telldir/seekdir, than expand the
>size of the cookie from 32-bits to a minimum of 128 bits, and
>preferably larger --- say 512 bits, to accomodate systems that might
>be using 512-bit variant of SHA-2.  [...]

Maybe a combination of both? That is, replace telldir by an
independent emulation layer.


Jan
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