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...he returned cookie as a 'long' from telldir(), and then use it to get to the same position again via seekdir(). There isn't any interpretation of the actual value inside Samba other than 3 'magic' values we use #defined here: /* "Special" directory offsets. */ #define END_OF_DIRECTORY_OFFSET ((long)-1) #define START_OF_DIRECTORY_OFFSET ((long)0) #define DOT_DOT_DIRECTORY_OFFSET ((long)0x80000000) So long as telldir() doesn't return any of these, we should work fine. We don't expect the cookies to be consecutive or in any order for that matter. So I would take issue with your...

I think it has a lot to do with telldir on an NFS share returning a cookie that is supposed to be unique rather than an actual offset. Problem is, that cookie is stored as a 31bit hash which can then end up as a negative signed offset in Samba which is not handled correctly. The cookies are not necessarily consecutive as you move through a directory. On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 19:00, Jeremy Allison