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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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- In article <20ac9sINN3eb@rodan.UU.NET> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
- >No. NFS is not the culprit. You cannot detect this at open time.
- >When you read a directory, you'll open it with open and read it
- >with getdents().
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- Seems to me the REAL culprit is the provision of multiple forms of
- the "read" function when one would do. Reading a directory object
- could, for example, return one new-line terminated record in ls -l
- format per read() invocation.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 91
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