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2005 Apr 19
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Re: missing directory entries on irix
...is a
> truncation issue, though I can't prove that this is the root cause of
> the missing directory entries.
>
> Historically, IRIX has roots in both SysV and BSD, and SGI take
> compatibility _very_ seriously in th 6.5 series. So there is a BSD
> telldir which is an alias to BSDtelldir and returns 32bit long. There
> is also a SysV telldir which returns 64bit off_t. Samba uses the SysV
> version, but casts the result to a 32bit long. By default, the dirent.h
> header file says that telldir returns a long, but AFAICT by grovelling
> in libc, it actually doesn't.
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