Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:31:39 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: bug: mount on an open directory succeeds |
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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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