It's a bit of a tangent, but just to be sure people don't get the wrong impression..
But I am not sure... that probably depends on how opendir(3) and readdir(3) works on given filesystem wrt. updates to opened directory. I think VFS on Linux ensures that you see view of filesystem as it was on opendir().
No, readdir() does not give you a static view of the entries in a directory as it was on opendir(). readdir() will reflect modifications that are done after opendir(). The specifics for a given situation depend on how the file system maps the readdir position (f_pos) to directory entries. You can see very different results when comparing, say, stock ext2, indexed ext[34], and btrfs. - z (your message probably caught my eye because telldir()/seekdir() is *loathed* by file system designers) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html