Seekdir Bug

Sat May 3 16:01:48 PDT 2008

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    And, stupid me, when I created the dirent structure I didn't add enough
    reserved fields to hold what we need, which is a full blown cookie for
    each entry.  We only have 40 bits worth of unused fields and we need
    64 bits.  I don't dare change that structure now, it would require
    every single application ever written to be recompiled.
Actually this is not true.  The dirent structure is variable-sized 
anyways, because it is only as long as necessary to store the name.

We could simply put the cookie after the name and include the cookie 
length in the namelen field, so that _DIRENT_NEXT will keep working.

Of course this is only needed for binary compatibility.  I think 
2.0-RELEASE would be a good opportunity to have a "break" in binary 
compatibility, i.e. to bump all library versions.  We could then introduce 
a new syscall returning nice cookies :)

cheers
  simon
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