[Carpetsmoker]

That's not true.

From the comments section on the Undeadly page:

> > So let me get this straight, the Samba developers have been aware of this problem for a while and just patched over it ?
>
> Samba people knew about incorrect behavior for the past three years, but never bothered to find its causation nor notify BSD people to take a look at it.

This is not true. The knew about the problem _and_ they talked to BSD people. But apparently they were told they were using the API wrong, it was never meant that way, etc., etc.,...

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This was used as an "excuse" to not further investigate. But ffs uses a linear directory stucture, and it even was the original filesystem seekdir(3) and friends were implemented on, so it was a jump to conclusions that was not justified.

Actually, once Marc had a test program that could reproduce the problem and while discussing things on icb, we both saw the bug almost simultaneously. The fix was quite straightforward, the challenge here was finding out what was going on.