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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Askar Safin <safinaskar@mail.ru>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What about adding AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT analogue to openat2?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:51:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a73i9txo.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200411070750.goak63tlej37wkbj@yavin.dot.cyphar.com> (Aleksa Sarai's message of "Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:07:50 +1000")

* Aleksa Sarai:

> It would just give you -EXDEV (or perhaps -EREMOTE) if you walk into an
> automount (the same logic as with the other RESOLVE_NO_* flags). We
> could make it -ENOENT if you prefer, but that means userspace can't tell
> the difference between it hitting an automount and the target actually
> not existing.

Maybe there's a better way to show the difference to userspace
involving something related to O_PATH?

      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-11 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-10 22:41 What about adding AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT analogue to openat2? Askar Safin
2020-04-11  6:02 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-04-11  6:45   ` Al Viro
2020-04-11  7:07     ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-04-11 10:51       ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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