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

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Message-ID: <je6485af7b.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:46:00 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: If not readdir() then what?

Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org> writes:

> On Sun, 8 April 2007 21:44:26 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> 
>> Well, Joern thought that rm -rf might relying on the telldir cookie
>> being valid in precisely that circumstance.  If that is true, I'd
>> argue that this is a BUG in GNU coreutils that should be fixed...
>
> I heard it and accepted that claim without checking it.

There is not a single call to telldir/seekdir in the coreutils source.

Andreas.

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