In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Otherwise, the client would have to cache _all_ previous READDIR results > since the last opendir()/rewinddir() in order to be able to do its own > loop detection and that will obviously never scale for large directories > or for directories that change frequently...
Unless you have a COW style filesystem with versioning (think oracle tables) you will have to invalidate cookies often or do copies - on client or server. And I am not sure whats worse (for apps)... disappearing/missing files or duplicates. Gruss bernd - 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/