On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Ok. Thanks. -- 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