Re: [PATCH] uml/hostfs: Propagate dirent.d_type to filldir()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Currently the (optional) d_type member in struct dirent is always
> DT_UNKNOWN on hostfs, which may confuse buggy software using readdir().
> Make sure to propagate its value from the underlying filesystem if it's
> available there.

What software would that be?  We have lots of filesystems not filling
in d_type, and several operating systems don't have it at all.

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