Alain PORTAL wrote:
Hi, Le Jeudi 19 Janvier 2006 10:58, Jochen Schlick a écrit :hi, i have an application which calls readdir(3) for accessing directories in tmpfs. after several hours the readdir call returns sometimes with einval. under which circumstances can readdir(3) produce einval ?Are you sure it is readdir(3) and not readdir(2) ? It seems there is only one return value for readdir(3): EBADF. But readdir(2) have a EINVAL return value. Man page say: "EINVAL: Result buffer is too small." Regards, Alain.
It is readdir(3) !!! It is only used to get all the filenames for later removal (some hundred msecs later)... The directory is part of a tmpfs because other filesystems are to slow. regards, -- Jochen Schlick