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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Fallthrus as full-length symlinks?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:32 +0000
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On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:36 +0900, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> No, that is not what I mean.
> When a fallthru entry is implemented as a kind of a symlink, what will
> they look like via /proc/pid/{fd,maps,cwd,exe}?

In that respect, and many others, it would behave more like a
cross-device hardlink than a symlink.

In fact, I was originally thinking that it would have something like an
nfsfh for the target inode, rather than a device (or fsid?) and
pathname.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation