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Subject: Re: readdir after rewinddir not working in 20060128 snapshot
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On Jan 30 00:29, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> After a rewinddir, readdir seems to return as many empty entries as there
> were actual entries left to read, followed by . and ..

Thanks for the testcase!  Since the underlying NT call NtQueryDirectoryInfo
is able to return more than one directory entry in one call, I thought it
might be a good idea to implement readdir caching.  Unfortunately I forgot
to reset the cache in case of rewinddir.  I've applied a fix now.


Corinna

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