Get the facts right please: That rant was bullshit.
NFS tries as hard as it can to interpret the cookie as a bag of
bits. It gets screwed in this by a VFS interface which treats the
32-bit getdents() as having unsigned 32-bit cookies, and the 64-bit
getdents64() as having signed 64-bit cookies.
To make matters worse, glibc comes along and assumes it can use
getdents64 as a substitute for getdents() without having to give any
thought to the problem of cookies.
If you're unhappy with the state of readdir, then fix the VFS/glibc.
At the moment it is simply not possible to write a consistent readdir
at the NFS level.
Trond
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