On 2015-04-15 14:13:43 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kushal Kumaran (kus...@locationd.net): > > Moving entries around breaks ongoing readdir operations. If a readdir > > has gone past the file being removed, and you moved the last entry > > there, the entry being moved would be missed, despite *it* not being the > > entry added or removed. > > I don't think this matters. There's no guarantee that another process > isn't writing to that directory while you are working your way along > the entries.
But with the current solution (no automatic moving of an entry), you can't miss an entry that hasn't been removed. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150420154843.gb17...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr
