cvs commit: src/sys/vfs/hpfs hpfs_vnops.c

Sun Aug 21 14:14:54 PDT 2005

On 21.08.2005, at 21:42, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:18:49AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
    The comment should be put back in, and clarified even more then
    it currently is.  e.g. I don't understand why the full negative
    range is allowed when only one or two directory entries are
    faked up, or why the wraparound test was removed.
I removed the comment because it is simply incorrect. If there should 
be
a comment, it should descripe why the on-disk offset in the directory 
is
not, but the added comment didn't do that. Arguments against using it
that way is the complication of code [for a secondary filesystem] and
the possible security issues coming from it.
I don't see how the comment was incorrect.  Don't expect me to know the 
complete hpfs filesystem though.  If you want to eliberate on all 
details of the directory structure of hpfs in this comment, be my guest 
and add this information, but don't just remove a helpful comment 
because it doesn't cover every single detail every possible developer 
could eventually need at some point in time.  The point of this comment 
is to inform the developer working (by accident?) on this file to 
understand that hpfs_readdir uses uio_offset in a special way: it 
increases uio_offset by 1 for each entry and not by the entry size 
itself.  This is crucial information for somebody who happens to have 
to need to fix something there.

cheers
  simon
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