Merge comments about converting directory entries to be more direct and

concise.

Inspired by:	Gleb Kurtsou
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John Baldwin 2011-05-14 01:10:57 +00:00
parent 3e00bad1b4
commit 5b4f35a4f0

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@ -119,17 +119,11 @@ static int ext2_dirbadentry(struct vnode *dp, struct ext2fs_direct_2 *de,
/*
* Vnode op for reading directories.
*
* The routine below assumes that the on-disk format of a directory
* is the same as that defined by <sys/dirent.h>. If the on-disk
* format changes, then it will be necessary to do a conversion
* from the on-disk format that read returns to the format defined
* by <sys/dirent.h>.
*/
/*
* this is exactly what we do here - the problem is that the conversion
* will blow up some entries by four bytes, so it can't be done in place.
* This is too bad. Right now the conversion is done entry by entry, the
* converted entry is sent via uiomove.
* This function has to convert directory entries from the on-disk
* format to the format defined by <sys/dirent.h>. Unfortunately, the
* conversion will blow up some entries by four bytes, so it can't be
* done in place. Instead, the conversion is done entry by entry and
* the converted entry is sent via uiomove.
*
* XXX allocate a buffer, convert as many entries as possible, then send
* the whole buffer to uiomove