From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Abbey Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:36:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20040826193617.GA21248@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Denis Vlasenko Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:28:41PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: | | Is it possible to sufficiently hide "dirs inside files" | so that old tools will be unable to see them? |=20 | I just checked: |=20 | ls -d /foo does lstat64("/foo", ...) | ls -d /foo/ does lstat64("/foo", ...) | but | ls -d /foo/. does lstat64("/foo/.", ...) |=20 | Will it work out if "dir inside file" will only be visible when referred = as "file/."? I'm used to using ls symlink/. to get ls to show me the directory on the far side of a symbolic link. That's a pretty analagous case to the one we're discussing here, I think? Jon --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jonathan Abbey jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Au= stin GPG Key: 71767586 at keyserver pgp.mit.edu, http://www.ganymeta.org/workkey= .gpg --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS) iD8DBQFBLjuxGI9EwHF2dYYRAragAJ9DcI5AB3TZLclfHo5e3Y5dS6JxdwCg0/6u AyQiinzuItKB7ATsWEZNni8= =3fHv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--