Hello Ed,

Thursday, June 14, 2007, 2:42:26 AM, you wrote:

ER> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:27:18PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
>> 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.

ER> As mentioned before, NetBSD's scandir(3) implementation was one.  The
ER> NetBSD project has fixed this in their CVS.  OpenBSD and FreeBSD's scandir()
ER> looks like another, I'll have to drop them a line.


Does it mean that FreeBSD won't be able to properly mount via nfsv4 from
Solaris 10/ZFS box? Or just that some applications using scandir()
won't work properly...? What I'm asking is if FreeBSD nfs client is
depending somehow on this.

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