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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2017 14:25:41 -0700
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r282485 - head/lib/libc/gen
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2igx_4mXc_wt9WD8B-AHCPc6FY7PT12Xs1TUiSt%2BFAP2A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201505051452.t45EqXXv027613@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201505051452.t45EqXXv027613@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Author: julian
> Date: Tue May  5 14:52:33 2015
> New Revision: 282485
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/282485
>
> Log:
>   Tweak seekdir, telldir and readdir so that when htere are deletes going
> on,
>   as seek to teh last location saved will still work. This is needed for
> Samba
>   to be able to correctly handle delete requests from windows. This does
> not
>   completely fix seekdir when deletes are present but fixes the worst of
> the
>   problems. The real solution must involve some changes to the API for eh
> VFS
>   and getdirentries(2).
>
>   Obtained from:        Panzura inc
>   MFC after:    1 week
>
> Modified:
>   head/lib/libc/gen/directory.3
>   head/lib/libc/gen/readdir.c
>   head/lib/libc/gen/rewinddir.c
>   head/lib/libc/gen/telldir.c
>   head/lib/libc/gen/telldir.h
>

Do you remember what the exact problem you had was?  I'm trying to write a
regression test for it, but I'm having trouble guessing what the bug was.
And was _fixtelldir() related to the issue with deletes, or was that to fix
a separate bug?

-Alan



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