Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in <2b5daa16a52f70c01b47c5d1ad8b3...@austingroupbugs.net>: ... |https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1798 ... | (0006710) geoffclare (manager) - 2024-03-07 18:14 | https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1798#c6710 ... |> You're missing the fact that the underlying OS does *not* maintain a file |position on directory descriptors. | |Actually, I think I knew that, but had forgotten it. | |So the Cygwin lseek() must have to fake an offset for fds associated with a |directory stream - presumably returning the read count - and accept those |faked offsets as input. | |To make it work for an lseek() on an fd obtained from dup(), as in |https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1798#c6703, couldn't you have dup() |notice that the fd passed in is |associated with a directory stream and create an association between the |new fd and the same directory stream? Admittedly the code would be more |complicated if a directory stream can be associated with more than one fd, |but it seems to me that this could be a promising approach that would |provide better compatibility with other systems.
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