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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:15:36 +0200
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is it not because of?

    A read of a directory yields an integral number of directory entries in
    the machine independent encoding given above (see read(5)).

glueing partial directory entries back together is no fun.