linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] fat: Fix VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR

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Message-ID: <20080701121827.GA25580@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:18:27 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] fat: Fix VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_xxx and cleanup for
	userland

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:22:48PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Given that the current version can't actually work without defininig
> > it's own dirent and thus ioctl number symbolic name I wonder if these
> > ioctls are used at all?  They must have been completely untested for
> > a while, and I suspect we'd be better off just removing them.
> 
> I had the same thought, but when checking this I noticed that at least 
> wine works around this problem:

Ok, I'll withdraw my objection in that case.

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