In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >>>> The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS uses dirent as the >>>> layout in directories as a microoptimization. >>> >>> I think the reason is exactly the opposite. >> >> Care to elaborate ? > >I think ffs is older than the current `struct dirent', and the latter >was copied from ffs's `struct direct', not vice versa.
Yes, we're in agreement then. My point was that cookies were not added to dirent because of the UFS/FFS relationship. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
