On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:27:18PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>I believe we should rather educate other people that st_size/24 is a bad > >>"solution". > > > >That's all well and good but fixing all clients, including potentially > >really old ones, might not be feasible. Being correct doesn't help > >our customers. > > To summarize my understanding of this issue: st_size on directories is > undefined; apps/libs which do anything other than display it are broken. > However, we should avoid exercising this bug in these broken apps if > possible. > > My question: What apps are these? I heard mention of some SunOS 4.x > library. I don't think that's anywhere near important enough to warrant > changing the current ZFS behavior.
NetBSD's scandir(3c) implementation was also identified. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
