Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 20:33:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidg@root.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VOP_READIR revisited Message-ID: <199512140333.UAA00876@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512140224.SAA00219@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Dec 13, 95 06:24:51 pm
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> >I believe that it also resolves all the outstanding "cookie" issues > >cleanly, without unduly complicating the interfaces (in fact, UFS > >complication is decreased slightly and VOP_READDIR in msdosfs, cd9660fs, > >hpfs, ntfs, etc. becomes vastly *less* complicated for NFS exportable > >versions of the file systems). > > Cleanly??? Your proposal sounds like total kludgeware to me. So you basically think passing around a buffer pointer instead of a buffer, and converting it in the copyout case is a more of a kludge than copying to a local buffer and maintaining malloc'ed arrays of cookies at every stacked FS layer, the syscall, and NFS server export code. I must be missing something that is obvious to you. Please enlighten us. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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