getdents64 problem in 2.6.23

[Jörn Engel]

On Sun, 28 October 2007 18:28:36 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> However, I think it's fine to _overwrite_ the deletion dirents with
> new ones.  getdentds() allows new names created during a directory
> read to appear or not in the lsit.

Correct.  You can delete/overwrite dentries, but you may not rearrange
their order wrt. i_pos cookies.

Jörn

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