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Re: several more bugs found by coreutils
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:58:03PM +0000, ericblake@comcast.net wrote:
>readdir() populates the dirent.d_ino member with a hashed filename,
>regardless of whether the file is located on NTFS and actually has an
>inode. This means that readdir() and stat()'s idea of inode are
>different, and this breaks the pwd program (it tries to find a
>directory member in ".." using readdir that has the same node as "."
>according to stat).
This is not going to be fixed. It's a longstanding problem. There is
no eay way to fix it which would not engender a slowdown in readdir
for a little-used feature.
cgf
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