"Skipping dirent" message

Edgar Grimberg edgar.grimberg at rms.ro
Tue Nov 8 10:28:04 EST 2005


Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:

> Edgar Grimberg wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have eCos and JFFS, and I get the following message from JFFS debug 
>> output:
>>
>> <7>Skipping dirent: "2007-01-08 08-27", ino #10, type 8, because 
>> curofs 2 < offset 3
>
> Don't enable debug output if you don't want to see this message :-)

No can do. I am testing the application and I like to see the engine 
running. :-)

>
>> I am not sure what it means, but the fact is that I have the 
>> "2007-01-08 08-27" directory and I want to opendir and readdir it.
>
> The message just says that the the direntry was skipped because 
> jffs2_readdir() was called with f_pos = 3, probably someone explicitly 
> wanted to read directory from offset = 3 (for example by means of 
> calling seek(fd, 3 SEEK_SET) to the parent directory). Try to sett the 
> position to zero.

I have to see who is the guilty one. Thanks for the response.

Best regards,
Edgar






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