Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:43:36 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: multimounting cdroms ??? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Erm? Do you have to mount non-directories, in the first place? > > Transformations of files to directories may be _very_ confusing for > > userland - that just does not happen. > > You don't *have* to, but it is sometimes nice *to be able to*. You can > change files to directories with rename(), unless you're talking about > changing already open file descriptors.
Yes it is potentially nice for cd-into-tar file tricks too. Perhaps confusing for userspace, but I see no fundamental reason to disallow it.
On this theme, does mount --bind --replace now provide a mechanism for atomic replacement of non-empty directories then?
-- Jamie
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