In their closed chambers (well, workshops, http://lwn.net/Articles/226351/), the filesystem developers complain about readdir. I fully appreciate the difficulties. But what I fail to see so far is any proposal for an alternative interface.
The phase to get new functionality included in the next revision of POSIX is over. But that does not mean we should not try to get some sensible new implementation in place. There is, for example, the "High End Computing Extensions Working Group" (the guys who showed up here with their statlite and readdirplus proposals). This is an official working group at the OpenGroup which can produce a document which can be the basis of inclusion in the next revision and become a OpenGroup specification earlier than that. So, if anybody has a proposal for better interfaces let's hear them. "Now" is a very good time to start working on this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/