Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 22:23:47 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer |
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:49:02AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
No collisions. There are other good reasons you dont want to do forks on files that way (you need to enumerate them but if you make them directories all hell breaks loose).
Hmm... so how else do you support n-forks cleanly preserving existing semantics? I'm not sure I like Linus' suggestion, but I can't think of anything better.
--cw
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