Possible readdir() problem on LFS (beta4)

[Jeremy Allison]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> 
> I have not seen any readdir64() in current SAMBA (I don't speak about
> wrapper). The problem is, if inode on really large file system does not fit
> into ino_t, readdir() will fail:
> 
>      [EOVERFLOW]
>           One of the values in the structure to be returned cannot be
>           represented correctly.
> 
> readdir64() returns dirent64 structure, where inode is of type ino64_t.
> 
> the problem is not related to directory size, but on our system the type for
> file name offset os off64_t as well.
> 
> It is trivial to test for readdir64() and dirent64, but currently we check
> for broken readdir() ... not sure it is needed in case of readdir64() ...
> 
> What is the case on other systems? Should I make readdir64 depend on
> specific defines or just use it if available?

Ok - I'll do the same wrapping for readdir64 and telldir64
as I do for the other calls.

Jeremy.

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