Is there demand for this? I'm prepared to write a nice tidy
new_getdents that returns d_type and structures in the format Glibc
would like if there's the demand.
It means extending the VFS layer to support the new readdir() semantics,
but other than that, it shouldn't be that difficult. Ext2 has been
storing this information since Linux 2.2, so most filesystems in the
field have this information; it's just that I never found any time to
add support into the VFS layer during the 2.3 development cycle. The
main problem at this point is the 2.3 feature freeze.
- Ted
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