Bug#44807: Hayes randomize mode unusable

[Eray Ozkural]

On Sunday 07 July 2002 18:33, Rob Kaper wrote:
>
> Your weighting would also work. Even if a file is played more than once,
> well, bad luck, but that is perfectly possible for true randomness as well.
> Given a high weight to unopened directories (and their subdirectories,
> where parents directories have a weight prportional to their contents),
> that should be sufficient.
>

Well by definition a sequence of integers subject to random permutation with 
uniform distribution does not allow duplicate integers ;)

What I'd like to know is, given a directory can I query the _number_ of inodes 
under that directory with a single disk access? Phalynx told me the kernel 
provides for this, but there isn't a system call. How do we pull this trick? 
Any API you guys know of that does this?

Thanks,

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Eray Ozkural <erayo at bilkent.edu.tr>
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