Re: NFS Client patch

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 22 July 2001 22:02, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Rob Landley <[e-mail]> said:
> > On Thursday 19 July 2001 14:24, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > No, if the file was removed, it still tells you where to start your
> > > > search.  A missing filename is just as good a marker as a present
> > > > one.
> > >
> > > And if new file is created with same name?
> >
> > The same thing that happens as if a new file was inserted BEFORE your
> > cursor, in the part of the directory you've already looked at.  You
> > ignore it.
>
> Who says that if I've got files A, B, C, D, and delete B, and create a new
> B, whatever underlying directory structure there is will place it where the
> old B was? It might reuse holes before A...

I suppose the assumption was that the directory entries are returned in 
alphabetically sorted order, even if the underlying filesystem doesn't do 
that.  Maybe this is a waste of effort on the server's part (and 
generating/maintaining other sorts of cookies aren't?), but it also seems 
fairly easy to make it work.  (I could easily be missing something obvious...)

Rob