[Za-pm] Behaviour of opendir: continued

[Dr Giancarlo Contrafatto]

Hi;

right ... it looks like Oskar was correct. Running opendir (and readdir)
from ext3 environment on data sitting in an ext2 drive is not the cause
of opendir weirdness.

Not a major problem since I can get the script to work by using another
perlfunc anyway. Not knowing the innards of the opendir function,
though, makes it a bit difficult to figure why it should do this. I'm
now wondering if opendir may not be making a "findfile" system call, or
something that looks into the file database anyway. In this case, I
suspect that one may have to refresh the file database after creating
new directory entries. How does this smell?

ciao

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