On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:50:48PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> So the question is...  are the cookies used in all kinds of reads?
> Or maybe they aren't, butl the system know where to restart a
> readdir operation in some other way?  If so, I will simply get rid
> of my custom variables.

The cookies just store the "offset" for each entry, not only the last as
would be returned to userland. It is not used by anything but NFS. On
the other hand, if there was a bug in the handling of seeking, it would
be exposed by normal readdir as well.

Joerg