From linux-fsdevel  Wed Nov 07 01:38:17 2001
From: Alexander Viro <viro () math ! psu ! edu>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 01:38:17 +0000
To: linux-fsdevel
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] extended attributes
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=100509705816808



On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think it would be better to have a statefull readdir instead.
> The kernel supports it via the ->private_data field of struct file
> (not through fork,but that looks like a generic vfs bug) 

???  fork() just copies references to struct file.

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