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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml/hostfs: Propagate dirent.d_type to filldir()
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:20:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120127182016.GA15705@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327688098-10159-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Currently the (optional) d_type member in struct dirent is always
> DT_UNKNOWN on hostfs, which may confuse buggy software using readdir().
> Make sure to propagate its value from the underlying filesystem if it's
> available there.

What software would that be?  We have lots of filesystems not filling
in d_type, and several operating systems don't have it at all.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-27 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 18:14 [PATCH] uml/hostfs: Propagate dirent.d_type to filldir() Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-27 18:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-01-27 20:54   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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