Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:20:03AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:

> In both cases, what used to be a proper offset in one fd can be
> complete bogus for another one.

Exactly.

Knowing the position within a directory is of questionable value and
trying to implement any reliable semantics for lseek is futile.
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