linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] readdir mess

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Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:34:36 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] readdir mess

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:13AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:04:33AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > coda:	returns fsck knows what (number of entries, mostly)
> 
> Not sure either and I was the one that sent the patch that introduced
> that. My closest guess would be that I looked too long at a getdents(2)
> manpage, but then again it doesn't really match that either.

Simply return 0 unless you get an error in iterator itself.  Returning the
first error from filldir requires changes in callers.
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