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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Is Unix getting bloated with un-needed special cases?
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Date: 30 Apr 91 18:31:02 GMT
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Well, given that getdents() is a system call, the obvious thing to do
is to treat directories as objects that return a sequence of dirents
when read.

Unfortunately, getdents() wants you to give it a "real" lseek offset
for the real directory file.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu