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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Wojtek Pilorz wrote:

> Would it be possible and a good idea to add such 'vector' operations to
> the Linux kernel?

Occam's Razor and all such.  Plus portability problems.

Besides, you get enough information from getdents() if you really want
to play silly games with that.