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Re: afs_readdir() and ncookies

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Sat Jun 13 11:44:30 1998

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-afs@MIT.EDU, rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:14:31 EDT."
             <199806131514.LAA04082@the-light-fantastic.mit.edu> 
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:43:49 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>

> It looks like afs_readdir() doesn't honor ncookies.  The fix should be

> ...

> but I'm a little worried that there are other problems in the cookie
> handling in that code.

I did some work in that area, and caught that problem.

Also, the cookie interface changed in 1.3E (space for cookies is now
allocated by the readdir operation).  I rewrote this and will be
commiting fixes to the MIT source tree (and *finally* making a new
libafs release to transarc..) in the near future.

					- Bill



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