Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:45:26 +0100 | | From | viro@parcelfa ... | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:16:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So if we do support it, I think we should just make the attribute point > look exactly like a normal directory, since that path would work as-is. If > we don't support it (and at directory points), we might want to just > consider it a special root. > > NOTE! Anybody who tries to use the "getcwd()" string as a real path is > already broken - you have pathname permissions that may not make it > possible to look up the path you see.
OK, forget getcwd(). What does lookup of .. do from that point? *Especially* for stuff you've got from regular files. That's the decision that needs to be made. - 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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