"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> 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
Stephen,
In fact, I already do have a scheme for doing this with persistent
offsets, problem is that they are not always ascending. (directories in
NetWare can link and wind all through the dir file in any order). I
need to do more testing. I have reviewed what NCPFS and SMBFS have had
to do to support this correctly. I was planning to use a similiar
method to what's in NCPFS.
Jeff
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