>On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>> >Oh, I see, this is bug 6479267: st_size (struct stat) is unreliable in
>> >ZFS.  Any word on when the fix will be out?
>> 
>> It's a bug in scandir (obviously) and it is filed as such.
>> 
>> Does scandir fail on zfs because of this or does scandir needs to
>> reallocate and does it use the size as first order estimate?
>
>The bug is actually wrong - scandir() does work.  It only uses the
>st_size as an estimate of directory size, but then scales the array as
>necessary.  Apart from an odd malloc(0) and the poor linear scaling
>algorithm, the function work fine with ZFS.

Ah, so it's not really a bug.  Is this common for all scandir()s?

Casper
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