svn commit: r282485 - head/lib/libc/gen

[Alan Somers]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at 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