[PATCH v2] xfsprogs/io: add readdir command

Mark Tinguely tinguely at sgi.com
Thu Aug 8 09:05:43 CDT 2013


On 07/24/13 07:44, Brian Foster wrote:
> readdir reads the directory entries from an open directory from
> the provided offset (or 0 if not specified). On completion,
> readdir prints summary information regarding the number of
> operations and bytes transferred. Options are available to specify
> the starting offset, length and verbose mode to dump directory
> entry information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster<bfoster at redhat.com>
> ---
>
> v2:
> - Convert from getdents to readdir.
> - Use configure mechanism for libc readdir() availability (zab).
> - Add extra dirent fields to verbose output (zab).
>

Just started to look at this.

Shouldn't there be a "closedir(dir);" to close the directory stream and 
release the directory structure?

Could we get a little info for the xfs_io man page?

Looks like a nice feature.

Thanks.

--Mark.



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