[Gluster-devel] struct dirent in snapview-server.c

Harshavardhana harsha at harshavardhana.net
Mon Jun 2 01:17:09 UTC 2014


>
> It is always possible to translate structures, the question is whether
> it is useful of not. d_off is the offset of this struct dirent within
> the buffer for the whole directory returned by getdents(2) system call.
>
> Since we glusterfs does not use getdents(2) but upper level
> opendir(3)/readdir(3), which use getdents(2) themselves, it never has
> the whole buffer, and therefore I am not sure it can make any use of
> d_off.

Understood that makes sense.

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