Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 10:50:16 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk> To: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: readdir() -> d_type always zero on NFS v3 mounted filesystems Message-ID: <6A9568DA9DF89991BA30F63E@triton.njm.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <78c159ef-947a-8e2f-53bf-8d27b80193bf@klop.ws> References: <2E84A420CCC10A73504624DE@triton.njm.me.uk> <78c159ef-947a-8e2f-53bf-8d27b80193bf@klop.ws>
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Hi Ronald,
On Thursday, April 29, 2021 13:14:53 +0200 Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:
> On 4/29/21 10:24 AM, N.J. Mann wrote:
[...]
>
> Nice analysis. The manual page dirent(5) says:
> "BUGS
> The usage of the member d_type of struct dirent is unportable as it is
> FreeBSD-specific. It also may fail on certain file systems, for example
> the cd9660 file system.
> "
I missed that somehow! Thanks for pointing it out.
I have now got a working patch which uses stat() instead of d_type. I
will send it to the author of gitup and see what he says.
Regards,
Nick.
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