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SubjectRe: bug: mount on an open directory succeeds


On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Amit S. Kale wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > mount on an open directory succeeds.
> >
> > Yes, it does. WTF makes you think that it's a bug?
>
> If allowing mount on open directory is correct, readdir and lookup on
> mountpoint should have consistency. As I had pointed out:

They have. ls(1) is buggy, that's it. If you want the listing of "." -
fine, open ".", but then you must care to call stat() on ./name. Yes,
there is no way to open the mountpoint. So?


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