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SubjectRe: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)


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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