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From: "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199602180604.BAA02189@pattern.arlington.ma.us> (message from John Kohl on Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:04:26 -0500)
Subject: Re: nfs server returns whiteouts for readdir!
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In a related matter:  I've always thought it was bogus to expect
user-level readdir type code to sort out the duplicate names that
are introduced by unionfs.  Why isn't that elimination of duplicate
names done in the kernel, below the getdirentries interface?

Gordon