Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 23:13:43 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: seekdir/readdir patch .. Call for Review. Message-ID: <55468177.6070100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <55461C28.6050408@freebsd.org> References: <55432593.6050709@freebsd.org> <20150501161742.GW2390@kib.kiev.ua> <55461C28.6050408@freebsd.org>
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On 03.05.2015 16:01, Julian Elischer wrote: >> Before making single-purpose changes to the libc readdir and seekdir >> code, or to the kernel code, it would be useful to state exact behaviour >> of the dirent machinery we want to see. No, 'make samba works in my >> situation' does not sound good enough. > Well samba is a MAJOR application for FreeBSD. there are many people > who combine the two, (e.g. FreeNAS, which suffers from this problem) > so taking it from "The Samba community does not recommend > running on FreeBSD due to problems with seekdir" to "Samba works > correctly on FreeBSD" is important.. Samba's behaviour here is governed > by Windows expectiations. Please look at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198819 too. Perhaps it is related or may be not (sorry currently I am not able to inspect the code). -- http://ache.vniz.net/
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