> But there still is a problem with applications (if any) calling
> seekdir/telldir directly...
Agreed. Note however that the semantics for seekdir/telldir as
specified by SUSv2 are much weaker than those in our current
getdents()+lseek().
On systems that conform to the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2,
a subsequent call to readdir() may not be at the desired position if
the value of loc was not obtained from an earlier call to telldir(),
or if a call to rewinddir() occurred between the call to telldir()
and the call to seekdir().
IOW assigning a unique offset to each and every entry in the directory
is overkill (unless the user is calling telldir() for all those
entries).
Cheers,
Trond
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