On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:26:28PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> It seems getdents will not fill d_type for objects that live on a NFS mount.
> Do I miss something, or should it be documented in getdents(2) and readdir(3)?

It can't always support d_type on NFS (only in the case of NFSv3 using
READDIRPLUS operations is it easy to do; it would have considerable
overhead otherwise).

I'm not entirely sure why we have d_type or how it got into our interface..
I originally didn't document d_type in getdents(2), because it couldn't
be completely supported. And other systems, like Solaris, do not have the
field at all.

So, something must be done, like entirely undocumenting d_type, or remarking
that not all filesystems may support d_type.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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