Re: If not readdir() then what?
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:30:38 +0100
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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