Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 14:54:32 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory |
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:23:54PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > How about some special node in eg. /proc (or a new filesystem)? > Eg. > /fileAsDir/etc/passwd/owner ... > would work for all *files*. For directories we do not know whether we're still > climbing the hierarchy or would like to see meta-data.
So we need to make *anything* done anywhere in the namespace to modify the dentry tree on that fs. Could you spell "fuck, NO"? - 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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