[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> >Oh, I see, this is bug 6479267: st_size (struct stat) is unreliable in
> >> >ZFS. Any word on when the fix will be out?
> >>
> >> It's a bug in scandir (obviously) and it is filed as such.
> >>
> >> Does scandir fail on zfs because of this or does scandir needs to
> >> reallocate and does it use the size as first order estimate?
> >
> >The bug is actually wrong - scandir() does work. It only uses the
> >st_size as an estimate of directory size, but then scales the array as
> >necessary. Apart from an odd malloc(0) and the poor linear scaling
> >algorithm, the function work fine with ZFS.
>
> Ah, so it's not really a bug. Is this common for all scandir()s?
The original BSD scandir() allocates st_size/24 and never realloc()s.
This is how it has been on SunOS-4.x and this is why it did fail with
e.g. a Novell Netware NFS server.
If there are still implementations around that have not been fixed, the problem
is still around.
Jörg
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