Messages in this thread | | | Date | 15 Nov 1999 09:43:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 14.11.99 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911141221440.2939-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> On 14 Nov 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > 3.something. And it required the mounpoint to be immediate > > > subdirectory of root. > > > > Nope. > > Nope _what_? 3.30 definitely had JOIN, JOIN.EXE _did_ check for the depth > of mountpoint (want a reverse-engineered C source?) and while you could > do it by hands it was _bad_ idea. Reason: the same table kept the cwd for > each disk. It didn't take much to trick chdir() into buggering the whole > thing big way.
DOS didn't always check the relevant length limits. That's a bug, not a missing feature.
> man csh.
Nothing surprising there about ~. (Though I certainly never use csh.)
>Ever used ~ftp in scripts?
I don't think so.
>Ever moved the sucker around?
Not without compatibility symlinks.
>Exactly.
Exactly WHAT?
> Now, replace it with the setup when package foo sits in the directory > bar\baz and you bind x: to bar\baz. Setting all pathes in config as > absolute on x:
Oh, you mean it gives you a very limited version of symlinks.
MfG Kai
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