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Re: readdir and d_ino set to 0
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According to Eric Norum on 9/3/2009 7:00 PM:
> If I recall my Unix V7 code correctly, I think that inode 0 was reserved
> for holding a list of bad blocks. Of course if your disk had a bad
> block that was *in* the inode table you were pretty much out of luck.....
Also, modern-day BSD union mounts read all the entries from several layers
of directories, sort them, then discard duplicate names by changing d_ino
to 0. In other words, there are still live systems where readdir returns
such dead entries.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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