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Re: BZ#6895: Describe DT_LNK
On 04/08/2012 06:33 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 04/08/2012 08:09 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
DT_WHT is still not documented - and set by the coda FS only.
Google could not help me with an explanation what it is.
Presumably that's for BSD-style whiteouts.
For more, please see:
Aurora V. Union file systems: implementations, part I.
LWN.net 2009-03-25<http://lwn.net/Articles/325369/>.
Thanks, Paul. Reading this, I think that DT_WHT should not be seen by
userland apps and filtered out by readdir. In that case, let's not
document it. What do you think of removing it from dirent.h?
Andreas
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