Philip Guenther wrote, on 01 Sep 2020:
>
> If a posix_getdents() implementation returned the names of all the files
> that ever existed in the given directory, including ones that were removed
> before the fd for this call was opened, what requirement in the standard
> would that violate? I don't see any, thus my suggested wording for such a
> requirement.
It would not comply with the very first sentence of the description:
The posix_getdents() function shall attempt to read directory
entries from the directory associated with the open file
descriptor fildes and shall place information about the directory
entries and the files they refer to in ...
Note "the files they refer to" (present tense).
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