From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting reading that I agree with;-)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:09:57 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CECB1E5.6070104@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020522194204.GD458@turbolinux.com
Andreas Dilger wrote:
>On May 22, 2002 18:33 +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>It is a pity we don't have more folks like Rob working on Linux.
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>I haven't read the whole paper, but at first glance it would appear
>to be trivial to do this under Linux, because the dentries maintain such
>an absolute path to a file. The only thing that appears to be needed
>for this is the new syscall and the applications to actually use it.
>The syscall just needs to walk the dentry tree upwards to generate the
>full path, as is already done in the __d_path() function.
>
>Cheers, Andreas
>--
>Andreas Dilger
>http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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I am told that Viro feels it would break applications. I think the
current .. handling should be considered a bug, and I don't really care
what obscure applications are broken in return for fixing this commonly
occuring bug.
Hans
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-23 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-22 14:33 Interesting reading that I agree with;-) Hans Reiser
2002-05-22 19:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-23 1:24 ` Lehmann
2002-05-23 9:09 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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