Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:12:15 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VOP_READIR revisited Message-ID: <199512150112.RAA00156@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Dec 95 20:33:21 MST." <199512140333.UAA00876@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>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. No, basically I think adding another VOP call significantly complicates the code both in its use and understanding of function...not to mention performance. -DG
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