Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>
> >>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
>
> > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you're unhappy with the state of readdir, then fix the
> >> VFS/glibc.
>
> > What should be done?
>
> Either we have to agree that we break legacy 32-bit getdents() and
> treat all cookies as signed 32/64-bit, or we break getdents64(), and
> treat all cookies as unsigned. (This applies to both 2.5.x and 2.4.x)
>
Or we do nothing.
What would you recommend?
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