On Sun, 23 May 2004, Jim Carter wrote:

> 
> Forgive my meager kernel knowledge, but even if opendir is the same for
> both uses, isn't there a separate object method implementing readdir,
> versus looking up a file by name?  Readdir should bypass the cache, reading 
> the NIS or LDAP map directly, while lookup should and does use the cache.
>

Yes. A directory inode gets assigned the directory methods.

Ian

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