> ...and your point would be that an exponentially increasing addition to > the existing number of tests is an acceptable tradeoff in a situation > where the >99.999999999999999% case is that of sane servers with no > looping? I don't think so... 1) Look again; it's O(1) work per entry, or O(n) work for an n-entry directory. And O(1) space. With very small constant factors, and very little code. The only thing exponentially increasing is the interval at which you save the current cookie for future comparison. 2) You said it *was* a problem, so it seemed worth presenting a practical solution. If you don't think it's worth it, I'm not going to disagree. But it's not impossible, or even difficult. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
