Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/3384: telldir-seekdir can cause livelock Message-ID: <199707052030.NAA19062@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3384; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: Subject: Re: kern/3384: telldir-seekdir can cause livelock
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 13:05:24 PDT
Actually, the relevant portion of the seekdir man page is probably
It is safe to use a previous telldir() val-
ue immediately after a call to opendir() and before any calls to
readdir().
which is what the test program does, so either the man page or the
implementation is wrong.
The readdir() man page doesn't happen to mention that the storage that
readdir() returns will be freed when you call closedir(); this is not
the case on other systems so should perhaps be documented (especially
since it's the cause of one of the bugs in the test program).
Bill
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