Subject: Re: compat/linux getdent64() NFS problem (Was: Re: Linux emulation and NFS)
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/24/2002 10:59:22
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:53:59AM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> to be the offset. I assume that the glibc code _does_ work even
> for NFS directories under Linux,
For some hosts (e.g. IRIX/XFS) it sometimes doesn't. The glibc floks
refuse to fix their bloody mess so most distributors try to work around
that with kernel hacks.