Bug#210861: libc6: readdir always returns dtype as unknown

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:02, Jacob Kolding wrote:
> But a friend of mine has the same problem with kernel 2.4.22 and
> reiserfs so how can it be a kernel problem. unless it's at kernel config
> option?
>
> attached is the strace from my friend.

In this case, getdents64() is indeed being used correctly.  But reiserfs
doesn't provide d_type information, so again you will get DT_UNKNOWN. 
Your friend needs to change to a different filesystem.

p.