On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:25 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Any bright ideas about what to do here? > > Restructuring the code so that we do not use "struct dirent" in the > first place, even in the original code that used only those obtained > from readdir(), perhaps? Then the codepath that would take the _thing_ > that describes the diretory entry would expect to see the data in > the struct you define (not "struct dirent" from the system), and you > can safely manufacture ones out of thin air. Okay, I'll submit a new series dropping most the patches, but note this thread in the commit message of the new testcases in case someone (maybe my future self?) wants to dig further.
