From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@hotmail.it>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3 and like, mount point in module
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:43:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150801134305.GW17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55BCC935.2000908@nod.at>
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> I'm not sure if it is worth the hassle, I bet some applications depend on that behavior.
> But you can give it a try, I'd insert a negative dentry for ".." if ".." is child of the current
> root.
Leaving aside the fact that .. handling does not depend on the corresponding
directory entry, why would such logics belong in the filesystem itself
anyway? And not in the caller of ->lookup(), which *does* have all the
information needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-01 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-01 12:27 ext3 and like, mount point in module Tomas Bortoli
2015-08-01 12:46 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-01 13:10 ` Tomas Bortoli
2015-08-01 13:27 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-01 13:43 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-08-01 14:34 ` Tomas Bortoli
2015-08-05 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
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