On Thu, 21 July 2005 00:25:17 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:20:03AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > > > In both cases, what used to be a proper offset in one fd can be > > complete bogus for another one. > > Exactly. > > Knowing the position within a directory is of questionable value and > trying to implement any reliable semantics for lseek is futile.
We surely agree on that one. But I guess Jan has something else in mind with this patch. See my other reply. Jörn -- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra - 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/
