Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:05:43 -0400 From: Jp Calderone <exarkun@intarweb.us> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: telldir()/seekdir() confusion Message-ID: <20030709010543.GA6014@intarweb.us> In-Reply-To: <20030708203026.GM87950@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030708192342.GA4899@intarweb.us> <20030708203026.GM87950@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:30:26PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > [snip] > > I don't think there's any pstandard that says that telldir has to > return a seekable file offset, or that consecutive calls on the same > position must return the same value. Think about a filesystem that > uses hashed or btree-based directories, for example; there may not be a > way to store the correct position in a single "long" value without > using a cookie like FreeBSD does. > Thanks, it all makes sense now. Jp
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