pseudo files (Re: V4 status)

[David Masover <jedi@ninja.dynup.net>]

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cool, thanks.

>That's unfortunately very hard to do if you are using usual system calls
>(like readdir(2), or open(2)), because they are tunneled through VFS
>that enforces some semantics.
>  
>
Enforces as in, if I enter the name of a directory, it adds a / to it 
before it passes to the filesystem?
I know it doesn't chop off trailing slashes (except in Reiser4, for 
obvious reasons).
Or, as this has a serious potential for becoming offtopic, can you point 
me to some reading material?

>Another problem ("ls seems to know it's a file") is with user level
>programs that are sometimes too smart.
>  
>
Maybe I'll try to fix that.  Intelligence seems to be the easiest thing 
to remove from a program.
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