From: David Laight <[email protected]>
To: 'Lennert Buytenhek' <[email protected]>,
Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS64
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:21:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> One open question is whether IORING_OP_GETDENTS64 should be more like
> pread(2) and allow passing in a starting offset to read from the
> directory from. (This would require some more surgery in fs/readdir.c.)
Since directories are seekable this ought to work.
Modulo horrid issues with 32bit file offsets.
You'd need to return the final offset to allow another
read to continue from the end position.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 11:41 [RFC PATCH] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS64 Lennert Buytenhek
2021-01-23 17:37 ` Jens Axboe
2021-01-23 18:16 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-01-23 18:22 ` Jens Axboe
2021-01-23 23:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-23 23:33 ` Jens Axboe
2021-01-28 22:30 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-01-23 23:50 ` Andres Freund
2021-01-23 23:56 ` Andres Freund
2021-01-24 1:59 ` Al Viro
2021-01-24 2:17 ` Andres Freund
2021-01-24 22:21 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-01-28 23:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-01-29 5:37 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-01-29 9:41 ` David Laight
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