Re: DCACHE Pinning Problems with rm -r on 2.2.15/2.3.99Pre3 withNWFS2.2.2

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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:31:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> After thinking about it, I got it. a code fix is in that remembers the
> last position passed from readdir(). 2.3.99Pre4++++ is on tonight's
> fare.

You really do need persistent offsets into the directory if you
can manage it, though. Applications expect to be able to use
telldir and seekdir to query and seek back to sequence points in
the directory. In particular, serving locally mounted directories
over NFS really needs this.

--Stephen

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