Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans Reiser <> | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:13:20 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | Re: If we cannot change file system semantics, we must concede that Bill Gates is right that Linux cannot innovate (was Re: (reiserfs) File systems are semantically impoverished compared) to databases |
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Pavel Machek writes: > Hi! > > > Now, what we _could_ do is to provide a user-space library stub for > > other NFS clients which translates O_DIRECTORY() opens to a file into an > > open of something like "filename/.%%pseudodir%%", and have an NFS server > > which detects that pseudoname and munges it into an O_DIRECTORY open on > > the server side. > > Aha - so Hans want open() to work on directories only when app does > > open("/etc", O_OPEN_DIRECTORY_AS_FILE) > > ? That will not break anything, but I doubt it is better than > > open("/etc#opendirasfile", O_RDONLY)
How about open("/etc/", O_RDWR)?
With the user library translating that to open("/etc/..body", O_RDWR)
> > which has advantage of easily going through network, advantage of user > being able to explicitly ask for this even for old apps (think cat > /etc - how do you convince cat to use O_OPEN_DIRECTORY_AS_FILE? You > add option? And why adding option when cat /etc#opendirasfile works > nicer?)
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