Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

[Bill Davidsen]

Sytse Wielinga wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > fuse-transfer-readdir-data-through-device.patch
> >  fuse: transfer readdir data through device
>
> It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse
> libs to be updated at the same time, or opening dirs for listings will break
> like this:
>
> open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOSYS (Function
> not implemented)
>
> As I personally like for my ls to keep on working, and I assume others will,
> too, I would appreciate it if you could add a warning to your announcements the
> following one or two weeks or so, so that people can remove this patch if they
> don't want to update their libs.

By any chance would this also break perl programs which readdir?

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