Re: seekdir/readdir patch .. Call for Review.

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 23:13:43 +0300
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).

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Received on Sun May 03 2015 - 18:22:04 UTC

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