On 4/10/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That might work. But if in the long term we want to separate out what we can send back via telldir/seekdir, and some future new Posix interface, [...]
With all these discussions about fixes for telldir, do we want to persue an alternative interface where the user can explicitly specify that no telldir/seekdir will ever be used? From what I know so far it would make technical sense since we could speed up/reduce the memory footprint of readdir in 99% of most programs. But is the benefit large enough to warrant a second interface? - 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/