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Re: findutils still broken


On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:37:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 21 16:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:33PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>>   I
>> >originally wrote this program to discover that inode reporting in
>> >readdir() is broken (to which you replied that fixing it would cause
>> >too much of a slowdown),
>> 
>> Yes, both Corinna and I had potential "fixes" (neither being a complete
>> fix) for this in our sandboxes but they didn't make it into 1.5.15.
>> Corinna got this working for >=XP which means that it wouldn't be right
>> only on NTFS file systems on NT3.5, NT4, and NT2K.  I just was going to
>> get rid of the inode field entirely because, as you'd previously said,
>> any well-designed software would adapt to the lack of that field.
>
>I'm not sure this presumption is correct.  The d_ino field is not marked
>as optional in SUSv3, it's marked as an XSI extension.  The crux with
>XSI extensions is that (quote SuSv3) "Application writers may confidently
>make use of an extension on all systems supporting the X/Open System
>Interfaces Extension."  This covers practically every serious system in
>the POSIX world right now.  If we drop d_ino, I'd expect another round
>of suddenly broken applications.

If there are programs out there which rely on d_ino then they are broken
on cygwin right now and have been for some time.

cgf

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