A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=697 ====================================================================== Reported By: steffen Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1 Issue ID: 697 Category: System Interfaces Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Comment Priority: normal Status: New Name: Steffen Nurpmeso Organization: User Reference: Section: none Page Number: none Line Number: none Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2013-05-15 10:31 UTC Last Modified: 2020-08-30 23:06 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Adding of a getdirentries() function ====================================================================== Relationships ID Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- related to 0000696 either NAME_MAX shouldn't be optional, ... ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0004958) philip-guenther (reporter) - 2020-08-30 23:06 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=697#c4958 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The proposed text includes: The d_name member shall be a filename string, and (if not dot or dot-dot) shall contain the same byte sequence as the last pathname component of the string used to create the directory entry, plus the terminating <NUL> byte. That would seem to require that all returned entries correspond to filenames that existed in the directory at _some_ point in time. However, I see no requirement that posix_getdents() only return currently existing files, nor any requirement that non-existing files be flagged in any way. The former at least seems like an oversight that should be corrected. I interpret the definition of readdir(), including its description of the DIR type: The type DIR, which is defined in the <dirent.h> header, represents a directory stream, which is an ordered sequence of all the directory entries in a particular directory. and later text as effectively requiring that readdir() may not return an entry for a file that did not exist at some point between when opendir() or rewinddir() was last called and when readdir() returned it. Since posix_getdents() is all about bulk transfer with no buffering, I think its description should be updated EITHER to require that a) all returned entries must have existed at some point during the call, OR b) all returned entries with d_ino != 0 must have existed at some point during the call and specify that entries with d_ino == 0 may have d_name[0] == '\0' Specifying (b) is more in line with historical BSD behavior, but does require additional application logic, so I'm sympathetic to a view that specifying (a) is the cleaner choice. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2013-05-15 10:31 steffen New Issue 2013-05-15 10:31 steffen Name => Steffen Nurpmeso 2013-05-15 10:31 steffen Section => none 2013-05-15 10:31 steffen Page Number => none 2013-05-15 10:31 steffen Line Number => none 2013-05-15 22:08 jilles Note Added: 0001607 2013-05-16 10:22 steffen Note Added: 0001608 2013-05-30 15:37 eblake Relationship added related to 0000696 2013-05-30 15:57 geoffclare Note Added: 0001629 2014-03-30 00:33 sstewartgallus Issue Monitored: sstewartgallus 2020-08-28 08:21 geoffclare Note Added: 0004947 2020-08-28 08:27 geoffclare Note Edited: 0004947 2020-08-28 17:07 shware_systems Note Added: 0004948 2020-08-28 17:52 kre Note Added: 0004949 2020-08-28 22:42 philip-guentherNote Added: 0004952 2020-08-28 22:52 philip-guentherNote Added: 0004953 2020-08-29 11:34 shware_systems Note Added: 0004955 2020-08-29 11:34 shware_systems Note Added: 0004956 2020-08-29 11:41 shware_systems Note Edited: 0004956 2020-08-29 11:44 shware_systems Note Deleted: 0004955 2020-08-29 13:07 shware_systems Note Added: 0004957 2020-08-29 13:11 shware_systems Note Edited: 0004957 2020-08-30 23:06 philip-guentherNote Added: 0004958 ======================================================================
