From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] __emul_prefix() problem
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:23:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805210@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805196@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:51:11PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> I'm not sure there is a clean fix to this, but one proposal is
> attached below: it causes __emul_lookup_dentry() to ignore the
> alternate root for paths that resolve to a directory. This obviously
> could create other problems, but I suspect there is no solution that
> works 100% in all cases (the fundamental being that we now have two
> different root nodes...).
Looks sant to me and doesn't break Linux-ABI. For 2.5 I'd prefer
to somehow build a per-personality namespace. Al, do you have an
idea how to keep a secondary namespace alive over the whole uptime
so non-Linu binaries can switch to it all the time (implicitly)?
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-18 10:23 UTC|newest]
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2001-09-17 23:51 [Linux-ia64] __emul_prefix() problem David Mosberger
2001-09-18 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2001-09-17 23:51 David Mosberger
2001-09-18 10:23 ` [Linux-ia64] " Christoph Hellwig
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