Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The implication of which, of course, is that any app build for Solaris 9
> > or before which uses scandir may have picked up a broken one.
>
> or any app which includes its own copy of the BSD scandir code, possibly
> under a different name, because not all systems support scandir..
>
> it can be impossible to fix all copies of a bug which has been cut &
> pasted too many times... 

15 years ago, Novell Netware started to return a fixed size of 512 for all
directories via NFS. 

If there is still unfixed code, there is no help.

Jörg

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