Incorrect readdir() behavour?
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Sat Oct 13 18:34:00 GMT 2001
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:54:21AM +0000, John William wrote:
>There seems to be a difference in behavour between RH Linux and Cygwin for
>the following case:
>
>cur_dir=opendir(...);
>while (cur_de=readdir(cur_dir))
>{
> do something with each entry
> (while this is going on, files are added to the directory)
>}
>closedir(cur_dir);
>
>Under Linux, readdir() only returns the files that existed when opendir()
>was called. With Cygwin, I get some of the new files added (but not all of
>them).
>
>My versions are: latest (per the updater) for Cygwin, except I'm still using
>
>the 1.3.2 DLL; standard RH 7.1 but with 2.2.19 kernel.
>
>I am assuming that Linux is correct and that this is a bug in Cygwin's
>readdir() routine?
Nope. cygwin != linux
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/readdir.html
cgf
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