Possible bug in the Samba4 POSIX backend ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:14:49AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When handling find first and find next, Samba4 hibernates directories.
> >
> > The approach taken, though, has a problem. It closes the directory and
> > then re-opens it, and does a seekdir to a location returned with telldir
> > earlier on.
> >
> > However, as the man page says for both FreeBSD and Linux, any offset
> > returned by telldir is not valid if you closedir the directory stream.
> >
> > As a result, for large directories, SAMBA 4 returns a continuous stream of
> > the same entries ...
>
> Indeed - you'll need to look at the Samba3 code and migrate the fix I
> did from there. I stole tridge's original code, ran into this problem
> then fixed it in Samba3.

Ahhh, thank you ...

Regards
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