Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:25:33 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) |
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On 12 Jan 1999, Magnus Ahltorp wrote: > > > (iso9660 does not have ".." on disk - so you need to know your path > > in order to know where ".." is) > > Why do you have to know where .. is in order to open a file?
Umm.. Other filesystems have other requirements. smbfs cannot do any FS operations without knowing the name of the file, for example. That _should_ be true of other network filesystems too, but I'm afraid that 25 years of UNIX has made some people forget what is sane and what is easily done in UNIX.
Linus
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