Christopher Gorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Of course, the getdents() API is rather unfortunate. It appears the only
> > safe algorithm is:
> >
> > while ((r = getdents(...)) > 0) {
> > /* process results */
> > }
> > if (r < 0) {
> > /* handle error */
> > }
> >
> > You _always_ have to call it at least twice to be sure you've gotten
> > everything.
> >
>
> Yes, it is Sun's cp. I'm trying, with some difficulty, to figure out
> exactly how to reproduce this error in a way not specific to my data. I
> copied a set of randomly generated files with a deep directory structure
> and cp seems to correctly call getdents() multiple times.
Note that cp (mv) does not call getdents() directly but readdir().
If there is a problem, it is most likely in readdir() and it really looks
strangee that ls(1) (although it uses the same implementaion) works for you.
Jörg
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