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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:22:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > In message <1075830486.7473.32.camel@nosferatu.lan> you write: > > > I think it's an excellent idea, although ideally we would have this > > > mechanism in userspace as much as possible. Anything from some > > > special hack to block -ENOENT on directory lookups and notify an fd, > > > to some exotic overlay filesystem. > > > > Something like attached. Besides me not knowing if there is a better > > place for it, it have the following issues: > > Dude, you're brave. I mean, really, really brave. > > However, it strikes me that the automounter does similar tricks, and > so a similar setup should be possible for /dev. > > Al? Suggestions appreciated? <shrug> If you want to mount autofs on /dev, more power to you. However, it got to be explicit "I mount <this> at /dev" - _anything_ based on "if pathname starts with /dev, it's special" is FUBAR. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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