Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:39:47 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] FUSE improvements + VFS changes |
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:04:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > The limitations are: > > > > > > > > 1) open("foo", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0444) or similar won't work > > > > > > > > 2) ftruncate on a file not having write permission (but file opened > > > > in write mode) will fail > > > > > > > > 3) statfs() cannot return different values based on the path within > > > > a filesystem > > > > > > 4) mass of a body cannot vary depending on the way it's turned. > > > > > > Horrible limitations, all of them... > > > > Troll. > > > > We have solution for 1-3, what's your's for 4? > > And in case you're wondering, 1-2 are mandated by SUS, and obscure > programs like "cp" depend on 1) for example. So it's not as if these > limitations were all that fair.
(1) and (2) are real, no arguments here. It's statfs one that is bogus (and yes, I should've trimmed the quoted part better). - 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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